Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge

Charles Lawson is Professor of Law at Griffith University Law School, Australia. Michelle Rourke is CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Fellow at Griffith University Law School, Australia. Fran Humphries is Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

1. Finding Solutions to the Intractable ABS Problems Charles Lawson, Fran Humphries and Michelle Rourke Theme 1 – Governance issues (working better) 2. The CBD’s Term ‘Sovereign Right(s)’ Does Not Necessarily Mean Sovereignty Todd Berry 3. Common Heritage or Sovereign Resource? The World Health Organisation’s Inconsistent Approach to Pathogen Sharing Mark Eccleston-Turner and Michelle Rourke 4. Access and Benefit Sharing in a Pandemic Treaty and Future International Public Health Agreements Sam F. Halabi 5. Access and Benefit Sharing and Biodiversity Conservation: The Unrealized Connection Rachel Wynberg and Sarah Laird 6. Message in a Bottle: DNA Computers Challenge Access and Benefit Sharing Regulation Fran Humphries, Michelle Rourke and Charles Lawson Theme 2 – ‘Digital Sequence Information’ and Dealing with Information 7. What Should We Mean by ‘Open Access’? Marcel Jaspars and Abbe E.L. Brown 8. Value Judgements and the Management of Digital Sequence Information Under the International Access and Benefit Sharing Regime Michelle Rourke 9. Access and Benefit Sharing and Digital Sequence Information: Unravelling the Knot Christine Frison and Elsa Tsioumani 10. Compatible or Incompatible? DSI, Open Access and Benefit Sharing Rodrigo Sara, Andrew Lee Hufton and Amber Hartman Scholz 11. Access and Benefit Sharing and Digital Sequence Information in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary Concerns in Regional Governance Titilayo Adebola and Daniele Manzella Theme 3 – Embracing Indigenous Peoples and local communities 12. Biocultural Community Protocols: Making Space for Indigenous and Local Cultures in Access and Benefit Sharing? Christine Frison, Louisa Parks and Elsa Tsioumani 13. Access and Benefit Sharing and Biocultural Protocols in the Pacific Daniel Robinson and Margaret Raven 14. ABS or Access Before Sharing: A Samoan Perspective Solamalemalo Saeumalo Hai Yuean Faatapepe Menime Tualima and Kathy Bowrey Theme 4 – Compliance measures for the users of genetic resources 15. ABS from the Perspective of an Intellectual Property Professional at a Public Research Institution Mukul Ranjan 16. Which Nagoya Protocol? User Driven Solutions to the Legal Uncertainty Created by Nagoya Brad Sherman 17. The Torres Strait Eight: Climate Litigation, Biodiversity, Human Rights and Indigenous Intellectual Property Matthew Rimmer 18. Monitoring Compliance with Nagoya: Lessons from India on Building a Techno-legal Infrastructure to Track Bioprospecting Activities Allison Fish