Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Legality of Intellectual Property in Vietnam

越南人民如何学习知识产权法？在过去的一代人中，越南已经获得了超过800亿美元的外国投资，其中大部分是在加入世界贸易组织并修改其法律的代码以将知识产权法写入书籍之后。 实际上，法律并不是越南大多数社会监管的来源，在越南志明市随处可见的盗版DVD和未经许可的软件中，财产的概念似乎很陌生。尽管如此，国内和国际品牌在越南激增，全球企业雇主引入了他们习惯的说话和行动方式：反映围绕想法的某些专有关系的方式，以及法律组织这些关系的地方。这种文化接触对知识产权在越南社会中的地位有何影响？它会对法律的共同地位产生什么影响？该项目分析了知识产权法在越南工程领域的合法性，目前正在通过国际雇主或教育工作者以及当地工程师的不同模式的谈话和实践进行谈判。方法包括半结构化的访谈和人种学观察在欧洲拥有的工厂和在H #7891;志明市的英语大学。这项研究考察了工程师如何开始他们的实践，采用或修改的模式，使一些想法的专有意义，并给予法律在这些专有关系的地方说话或实践。在不断变化的法律中，不同文化实践之间的相互作用是法律的和社会同时变化这一领域理论发展的肥沃经验土壤。更广泛地说，这项研究通过围绕越南法律的社区以外不断增长的中产阶级和专业群体的动态重新构建问题，参与了全球知识产权保护政策的辩论。

How and what are the Vietnamese people learning about intellectual property ("IP") law? In the last generation, Vietnam has received over $80 billion of foreign investment, most of it since joining the World Trade Organization and revising its legal codes to put IP law on the books. In action, law is not the source of most social regulation in Vietnam, and a concept of ideas as property seems foreign among the pirated DVDs and unlicensed software everywhere in Hồ Chí Minh City. Nevertheless, domestic and global brands proliferate in Vietnam, and global corporate employers introduce their habitual ways of talking and acting: ways that reflect certain proprietary relationships around ideas, and a place for law to organize those relationships. What is this cultural contact doing to the place of IP in Vietnamese society? And what might it be doing to the common place of law?This project analyzes the legality of IP law within engineering in Vietnam, which is currently being negotiated through the coming together of the disparate patterns of talk and practice of international employers or educators and of local engineers. The methodology includes semi-structured interviews and ethnographic observation in a European-owned factory and in an English-language university in Hồ Chí Minh City. The research examines how engineers beginning their practice adopt or modify the patterns of talk or practice that give some ideas a proprietary sense, and that give law a place in those proprietary relationships. The interaction between different cultural practices amidst changing legality is fertile empirical ground for theoretical development in this area of simultaneous legal and social change. More broadly, this research engages debates on the policy of global IP protection by reframing the issue around the dynamics of the growing middle-class and professional groups outside the legal community in Vietnam.