IMPERIUM CAPITALIS 2026
Empire of capital
“Where knowledge becomes territory, ownership becomes the rule”

Two Days National Seminar on
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AS CORPORATE HEGEMONY
Law, Capital, Knowledge, and the Politics of Ownership

29–30 September 2026 | Government Law College, Kozhikode
Organised by MaFLaC

ABOUT IMPERIUM CAPITALIS
In an age where patents guard medicines, algorithms hold data hostage, and corporations claim dominion over ideas themselves, knowledge has become the last great empire ruled not by kings, but by capital. Imperium Capitalis is MaFLaC’s national seminar confronting this new order: an interdisciplinary reckoning with Intellectual Property as the modern architecture of corporate power.

BROAD SUB-THEMES
1. Philosophical Justification of IP: Developing Country Perspective
2. Political Economy of IP
3. TRIPS & the Global South
4. Pharma Patents and Public Health
5. AI, Copyright & Digital Capitalism
6. IP, Agriculture & Food
7. IPR, Traditional Knowledge, & Biopiracy
8. Open Source, Open Access & Commons
9. Public Interest Limitation on IP
10. IP, Capital, Corporate Power

REGISTRATION FEE NOTE
The registration fee is inclusive of Registration kit, soft Conference Proceedings, tea and lunch.
The registration fee does not include accommodation.