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Comments on PABS Systems INB 9 by CIL’s Ayelet Berman and Kriti Sharma

Member states are negotiating an international agreement to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, and have set the 77th World Health Assembly (May 27, 2024) as the deadline for adoption. Given the many contentious issues, it is, however, questionable whether the deadline will be met. The Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) System proposed is among …

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Traditional Knowledge Protection: Leveraging Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adoption in WIPO-IGC Negotiations 2024

The WIPO will host a Diplomatic Conference to conclude an international legal instrument relating to Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources at its Geneva headquarters from May 13 to 24, 2024. Ahead of this Conference, Kriti Sharma of the CIL Global Health Law program briefly argues for how traditional knowledge …

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Addressing Traditional and Emerging Threats to Commercial Shipping in Southeast Asia in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy

Professor Robert Beckman and Dr. Trung Nguyen edited a Special Issue on Addressing Traditional and Emerging Threats to Commercial Shipping in Southeast Asia in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy, Volume 8 (2023): Issue 2 (Dec 2023). There are seven journal articles in this Special Issue, encompassing a diverse range of issues of …

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Environmental Provisions in ASEAN Investment Agreements: Reserving Member States’ Right to Regulate Environmental Issues

Kim Anh Dao Korea University School of Law, Foreign Trade University, Hanoi, Vietnam This work-in-progress was presented and workshopped at the ASEAN Law Academy Conference 2023. The full article was later published in the Journal of East Asia and International Law (published online: November 30, 2023), and can be accessed here: http://journal.yiil.org/home/archives_v16n2_06.   This article …

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Converging Paths: Global Governance for Climate Justice and Health Equity

Published by: Observer Research Foundation Editors: Vikrom Mathur and Aparna Roy Chapter Title: Health Equity Under the UNFCCC by Danielle Yeow and Railla Puno Publication Link: https://www.orfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ORF_Monograph_Converging-Paths_n.pdf The relationship between global health and climate change is profound and multidimensional. Climate change is already causing widespread impacts across the globe and exacerbating existing health vulnerabilities. This …

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Negotiating Text of the WHO Pandemic Agreement – Commentary by Ayelet Berman and Kriti Sharma

On 16 October 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) International Negotiating Body (INB) presented to WHO member states the most recent “Negotiating Text of the WHO Pandemic Agreement”. Ayelet Berman and Kriti Sharma of the CIL Global Health Law Program review and comment on the proposed agreement in the most recent CIL Global Health Law …

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Investing the ASEAN Way

In recent decades, South East Asia has become one of the world’s most popular destinations for foreign investment. The member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have employed varying modalities to pursue first security and then economic cooperation. This book explores regional law and governance in ASEAN through the lens of its …

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The 1982 Law of the Sea Convention and the Regulation of Offshore Renewable Energy Activities within National Jurisdiction

Author: Dawoon Jung (Lecturer, ANCORS at the University of Wollongong, Australia; a Formal Research Fellow in the Ocean Law and Policy team at CIL). More information at: https://brill.com/display/title/61776?language=en There are various environmental and legal challenges arising from offshore renewable energy activities which were not foreseen at the time of the negotiation of the 1982 United …

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