Christine Frison

Christine Frison is a researcher at the CIR

E-mail: christine.frison@law.kuleuven.be

Tel 00 32 16 328811

Fax 00 32 16 323730

Curriculum vitae:

Christine (°1980) studied Law, with a specialization in public international law, at the University of Montpellier (France) where she graduated (cum laude) in 2002. During her undergraduate studies, she spent one year at the Nottingham Trent University as an Erasmus exchange programme student. Afterwards, she did a Master I (Maîtrise) at the Université Lyon III (France) in International and Trade Law (n°2 out of all Master students). She then did a Master II (Diplôme d'Etudes Spécialisées) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) in Public International Law.

For two years (September 2004-2006), she worked as a Legal Research Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), based at the McGill University in Montréal (Canada). During this fellowship, she conducted research in the field of international biodiversity law (Convention on Biological Diversity, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture) and international sustainable biosafety law (Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety). She worked as a consultant in these fields for various international organizations and governments such as the United Nation Environment Program (UNEP), 15 francophone African Countries' governments, the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (Italy) in Rome (IPGRI, now called Bioversity International), the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO, Rome, Italy) and the Belgian Federal Ministry of Environment.

In January 2006, she joined the Centre for Philosphy of Law (CPDR) at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium) to perform a national survey on the use of genetic resources by Belgian users and on the degree of knowledge and application of international biodiversity obligations by these users (mainly access and benefit-sharing measures of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Bonn Guidelines).

She joined the CIR in December 2006 to work with the research group of Prof. Dr. Geertrui Van Overwalle composed of Esther van Zimmeren, Nele Berthels, Birgit Verbeure and Gert Mattijs on the “Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen” ( FWO) project on “Gene patents and public health”. Their main task is to set up a survey, lead by Esther van Zimmeren, on licensing practices in human genetics in Europe. Christine is also carrying out her Ph.D. research under the supervision of Prof. Van Overwalle in agricultural biodiversity and more specifically she will analyse the relationship between IPRs and sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity. She carries out her PhD research in collaboration with the CPDR under the supervision of Prof. Tom Dedeurwaerdere.

Working Languages:

English, French and Italian

Publications:

Articles in international peer reviewed journals

Christine FRISON, Tom DEDEURWAERDERE and Michael HALEWOOD, 'Intellectual Property and Facilitated Access to Genetic Resources under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture', opinion note, European Intellectual Property Review, issue 1 (2010; accepted); 9 p.

FRISON, Ch., ‘ The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources in Food and Agriculture from the Perspective of the Principles of International Law Related to Sustainable Development' Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (JSDLP) Vol. 2/2 (2006), pp. 155-174.

FRISON, Ch., JOIE, Th., ‘Elaboration d'une réglementation de biosécurité par certains pays en développement: expériences dans la mise en oeuvre du Protocole de Cartagena en Afrique de l'Ouest' Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD Journal) Vol. 2/2 (2006), pp. 166-182.

Articles in other scientific journals

FRISON, Ch., GARFORTH, K., ‘ Key issues in the relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture' Occasional Paper – Quaker International Affairs Programme (QIAP) Occasional Papers no. 2 (July 2007), 20 p.

Scientific reports

FRISON, Ch., 'Legal Analysis of the Material Transfer Agreements of the Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement', Report for the Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, K.U.Leuven (Aug. 2008) Leuven, Belgium; 103 p.

FRISON, Ch. & DEDEURWAERDERE,T., ‘ Infrastructures publiques et régulations sur l'Accès aux ressources génétiques et le Partage des Avantages qui découlent de leur utilisation pour l'innovation dans la recherche des sciences de la vie : Accès, conservation et utilisation de la diversité biologique dans l'intérêt général' Public federal Service, DG Environment, July 2006, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique [ forthcoming available at http://biogov.cpdr.ucl.ac.be/index.html ] .

FRISON, Ch., HALEWOOD, M., ‘Annotated bibliography addressing the international pedigrees and flows of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture SGRP': Information document submitted by the System-wide Genetic Resources Programme of the CGIAR to the Eighth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 8) and the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute ( IPGRI) Jan. 2006, Rome, Italy, [ available at http://www.bioversityinternational.org/Publications/pubfile.asp?ID_PUB=1087]

Articles in books

FRISON, Ch., JOIE, Th., ‘Expériences sur l'élaboration de nouvelles lois de développement de la biosécurité et de la biotechnologie: perspectives de réformes légales en Afrique de l'Ouest' in Searching for Success – Narrative accounts of legal reform in developing and transition countries, International Development Law Organisation (IDLO) Rome, Italy, 2006 (free order on-line at http://www.idlo.int/OrderBook1.HTM )

CHAMBERS, B., KAMBU, A., FRISON, Ch., ‘ Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge' in GEHRING, M., CORDONNIER SEGGER, M-C., eds ., Sustainable Developments in World Trade Law, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2005; 735 p, ISBN: 9041123660 .

Book reviews

FRISON, Ch. , ‘ Commentaire de la Thèse de doctorat de TANCREDI Antonello, La secessione nel diritto internazionale' i n Diritto internazionale e ordine mondiale , PICONE, P., n°6, 923p., edition CEDAM, Padova, Italia, 2001, ISBN 88-13-23555-0 ; in Revue Belge de Droit International (R.B.D.I.) 2004.