Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Legality of Intellectual Property in Vietnam

越南人是如何学习知识产权法的？在上一代人的时间里，越南吸引了超过800亿美元的外国投资，其中大部分是在加入世界贸易组织（World Trade Organization）和修改法律法规、将知识产权法写入法律之后。实际上，法律并不是越南大多数社会规范的来源，在越南到处都是盗版dvd和未经许可的软件，将思想视为财产的概念似乎很陌生。Chí胡志明市。然而，国内和国际品牌在越南大量涌现，全球企业雇主引入了他们惯常的说话和行为方式：这些方式反映了围绕思想的某些专有关系，以及法律组织这些关系的场所。这种文化接触对IP在越南社会中的地位有何影响？它会对法律的公共场所产生什么影响？该项目分析了越南工程领域知识产权法的合法性，目前正在通过将国际雇主或教育工作者与当地工程师的不同谈话和实践模式结合起来进行谈判。研究方法包括半结构化访谈和人种学观察，分别在一家欧洲人拥有的工厂和一所英语大学进行。Chí胡志明市。这项研究考察了工程师在开始他们的实践时如何采用或修改谈话或实践的模式，这些模式赋予一些想法专有的意义，并使法律在这些专有关系中占有一席之地。不同文化实践在法制变迁中的相互作用，为这一法律与社会同步变革领域的理论发展提供了丰富的经验基础。更广泛地说，本研究通过围绕越南法律界以外不断增长的中产阶级和专业团体的动态重新构建问题，参与了关于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.