Publications and communications of Christine Frison

Ghimire, S., & Frison, C. (2025). Accommodating Farmers-Breeders' Access to Breeding Materials in IP and ABS Regime for Inclusive Innovation. In A. Leonard, A. Gorbatyuk, ... E. van Zimmeren, The Future of IP: Stimulating Creativity and Inclusivity Liber Amicorum Geertrui Van Overwalle (pp. 16). Larcier Intersentia.

Ghimire, S., Van der Borght, K., & Frison, C. (2025). Bolivia’s resistance to modification and commodification of seeds: challenges in aligning domestic situation with its international position. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 20 (3), 170-181. doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpae098

Walckiers, P., Frison, C., & Aubry, S. (23 August 2024). A roadmap to equity in pandemic preparedness, prevention and response. Journal of Global Health, 14 (03031), 1-9. doi:10.7189/jogh.14.03031

Frison, C., Hecquet, C., Forney, J., Scaffidi, C., Loodts, N., & Hermesse, J. (2024). Résilience des systèmes alimentaires : pistes de réflexion pour redessiner nos territoires alimentaires en Europe à partir d’un cas d’étude. In J. Hermesse & O. Servais (Eds.), Déconfiner l’Europe (pp. 57 -98). Paris, France: Karthala.

Frison, C., & Walckiers, P. (2024). L’arrêt PAN c. Belgique ou la primauté des objectifs environnementaux et de la santé humaine et animale. In D. Misonne & M.-S. de Clippele (Eds.), Les grands arrêts inspirants du droit de l'environnement (1ère éd, pp. 236-248). Bruxelles, Belgium: Larcier Intersentia.

Saxena, D., & Frison, C. (2024). A case for activating producers’ rights in discussions on conservation of biodiversity through Geographical Indications. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 19 (8), 639 - 647. doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpae005

Jandrain, A., & Frison, C. (12 July 2023). Modernisation et masculinisation du réseau semencier. Le cas de la filière haricot à Idjwi, en RD Congo. Droit et Cultures: Cahiers du Centre de Recherche de l'UER de Sciences Juridiques, 83 (1). doi:10.4000/droitcultures.8621

Atienza Casas, S.* , Calicis, C.* , Candiago, S.* , Dendoncker, N.* , Desair, J.* , Fickel, T.* , Finne, E. A.* , Frison, C.* , Haensel, M.* , Hinsch, M.* , Kulfan, T.* , Kumagai, J. A.* , Mialyk, O.* , Nawrath, M.* , Nevzati, F.* , Washbourne, C.* , & Wübbelmann, T.*. (2023). Head in the clouds, feet on the ground: how transdisciplinary learning can foster transformative change—insights from a summer school. Biodiversity and Conservation, 32 (11), 3533 - 3568. doi:10.1007/s10531-023-02603-0

Girard, F., Frison, C., & Noiville, C. (2023). Seed. Commodification, decommodification and commoning. In E. Bertrand & V. Panitch (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Commodification. Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003188742-34

Walckiers, P., & Frison, C. (2023). Jurisprudence en bref - C.J.U.E., 7 février 2023, Confédération paysanne e.a., C-688/21. Aménagement - Environnement, 3 (2023), 162-164.

Aubry, S., Frison, C., Medaglia, J. C., Frison, E., Jaspars, M., Rabone, M., Sirakaya, A., Saxena, D., & van Zimmeren, E. (2022). Bringing access and benefit sharing into the digital age. Plants, People, Planet, 4 (1), 5 - 12. doi:10.1002/ppp3.10186

Frison, C. (2022). Introduction - Le droit comme outil pour la transition écologique et sociale. Annales de Droit de Louvain, 84 (1), 3-8.

Frison, C., & Bendimred, A. (2022). Séquençage des données issues des ressources génétiques : trouble-fête du régime international d’accès et de partage des avantages du Protocole de Nagoya. Annales de Droit de Louvain, 83 (2), 381-432.

Frison, C., & Tsioumani, E. (2022). Access and Benefit Sharing and Digital Sequence Information: Unravelling the Knot. In C. Lawson, M. Rourke, ... F. Humphries (Eds.), Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge (pp. 122-138). Oxford, Unknown/unspecified: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003301998-11

Frison, C., Tsioumani, E., & Park, L. (2022). Biocultural community protocols: making space for indigenous and local cultures in access and benefit-sharing? In C. Lawson, M. Rourke, ... F. Humphries (Eds.), Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge. Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003301998-15

Girard, F., Frison, C., & Hall, I. (2022). Community Protocols and Biocultural Rights: Unravelling the Biocultural Nexus in ABS. In C. Frison, F. Girard, ... I. Hall (Eds.), Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Protecting Culture and the Environment (pp. 26-71). Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003172642-1

Girard, F., Frison, C., & Hall, I. (2022). Biocultural Jurisprudence in Hindsight: Lessons for the Way Forward. In C. Frison, F. Girard, ... I. Hall (Eds.), Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Protecting Culture and the Environment (pp. 352-376). Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003172642-15

Girard, F., Hall, I., & Frison, C. (2022). BIOCULTURAL RIGHTS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES: Protecting Culture and the Environment. Londres, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003172642

Le Teno, S., Frison, C., & Cogolati, S. (2022). The right to seeds: using the Commons as a sustainable governance scheme to implement peasants’ rights? In M. Alabrese, A. Bessa, M. Brunori, ... P. F. Giuggioli (Eds.), The United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas in perspective (pp. 119-133). Oxford, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Brison, N., & Frison, C. (2021). L’avenir des ressources génétiques marines au-delà des juridictions nationales : enjeux à l’aube d’un nouveau traité international. VertigO: la Revue Electronique en Sciences de l'Environnement, 21 (1), 1-25. doi:10.4000/vertigo.30610

Frison, C. (2021). Biodiversity. In K. De Feyter, S. De Moerloose, ... G. E. Türkelli (Eds.), Law & Development Encyclopaedia (pp. 20-23). Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.

Frison, C., & Bendimred, A. (2021). Séquençage des données issues des ressources génétiques : trouble-fête du régime international d’accès et de partage des avantages du Protocole de Nagoya. Annales de Droit de Louvain, 83 (2), 381-432.

Frison, C., & Gils, T. (2021). Blockchain technology for food security? Resilience potential and risk identification for the Multilateral System of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. In S. Switzer, F. Sindico, ... Q. Tianbao (Eds.), The Transformation of Environmental Law and Governance: Risk, Innovation and Resilience. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar.

Girard, F., & Frison, C. (2021). From farmers’ rights to the rights of peasants: seeds and the biocultural turn. Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 102 (4), 461-476. doi:10.1007/s41130-021-00163-x

Le Teno, S., & Frison, C. (2021). Sea-ice melting, collective inuit peoples' rights and the human rights discourse: A critical legal analysis of the nunavut governance system. Environmental Policy and Law, 51 (4), 223 - 234. doi:10.3233/EPL-201067

Sievers-Glotzbach, S., Euler, J., Frison, C., Gmeiner, N., Kliem, L., Mazé, A., & Tschersich, J. (2021). Beyond the material: knowledge aspects in seed commoning. Agriculture and Human Values, 38 (2), 509 - 524. doi:10.1007/s10460-020-10167-w

Frison, C. (2020). La loi gender mainstreaming, un outil pertinent pour lutter contre les inégalités femmes-hommes laissé au fond des tiroirs politiques. In D. Bernard & C. Harmel (Eds.), Droits des femmes - Code commenté" (pp. 97-99). Bruxelles, Belgium: Larcier Intersentia.

Frison, C. (2019). Owning or caring for seeds. The role of Intellectual Property in disrupting communities’ stewardship for agrobiodiversity. In CiTiP (ed), Rethinking IT and IP Law. Celebrating 30 Years CiTiP (pp. 217-222). Anvers, Belgium: Larcier Intersentia.

Frison, C. (2018). Redesigning the global seed commons: Law and policy for agrobiodiversity and food security. Londres, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203733257

Frison, C. (July 2018). Mal traitée, la biodiversité agricole? Six principes invariables pour un «commun global des semences». Études Rurales, 202 (2), 56 - 75. doi:10.4000/etudesrurales.14809

Frison, C. (2018). Redessiner un commun pour les semences : évaluation critique du système multilatéral d’accès et de partage des avantages du Traité international sur les ressources phytogénétiques pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (TIRPAA). Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Études Juridiques, 81 (2), 211-241. doi:10.3917/riej.081.0211

Frison, C. (2018). Planting the commons: towards redesigning an equitable global seed commons. In F. Girard & C. Frison (Eds.), The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research – Challenges for food security and agrobiodiversity (pp. 272-289). London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315110387-18

Frison, C., & Coolsaet, B. (2018). Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture as a Commons. In J. L. Vivero Pol, T. Ferrando, O. De Schutter, ... U. Mattei (Eds.), Handbook of Food as a Commons: An alternative narrative and political praxis to cultivate and eat (pp. 218-230). Londres, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315161495-14

Girard, F., & Frison, C. (2018). The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research – Challenges for food security and agrobiodiversity. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315110387

Girard, F., & Frison, C. (2018). Introduction: Commoning the seeds: the futures of agrobiodiversity and food security. In F. Girard & C. Frison (Eds.), The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research: Challenges for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity (pp. 1-20). London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315110387-1

van Zimmeren, E., & Frison, C. (2017). Patent Thicket. In M. Cornu, J. Rochfeld, ... F. Orsi (Eds.), Dictionnaire des biens communs. Presses Universitaires de France.

Frison, C. (2016). Towards redesigning the plant commons : a critical assessment of the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing of the international treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture [Doctoral thesis, UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/327400

Six, B., Van Zimmeren, E., Popa, F., & Frison, C. (2015). Trust and social capital in the design and evolution of institutions for collective action. International Journal of the Commons, 9 (1), 151 - 176. doi:10.18352/ijc.435

Claeys, P., & Frison, C. (2014). The right to food in international law. In P. B. Thompson, D. M. Kaplan, K. Millar, L. Heldke, ... R. Bawden (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (pp. 1617-1624). Dorderecht, Unknown/unspecified: Springer.

Cordonier Segger, M.-C., Frison, C., & Perron-Welch, F. (2013). Conclusion. In M.-C. Cordonier Segger, F. Perron-Welch, ... C. Frison (Eds.), Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (pp. 514-520). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Cordonier Segger, M.-C., Perron-Welch, F., & Frison, C. (2013). Introduction. In C. Frison, M.-C. Cordonier Segger (Ed.), ... F. Perron-Welch (Ed.), Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (pp. 1-14). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Frison, C., Lopez, F., & Esquinas-Alcazar, J. (2013). General Conclusions: Summary of Stakeholders’ Views and Suggestions to Cope with the Challenges in the Implementation of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. In C. Frison, F. Lopez, ... J. Esquinas-Alcazar (Eds.), Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security - Stakeholder Perspectives on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (pp. 257-279). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Frison, C., Tidiane Manga, S.-J., & Cordonier Segger, M.-C. (2013). Implementing Sustainable Development through National Biosafety Frameworks. In M.-C. Cordonier Segger, C. Frison, ... F. Perron-Welch (Eds.), Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (pp. 35-47). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Perron-Welch, F., Cordonier Segger, M.-C., Frison, C., & Medaglia, J. (2013). Sustainable Development, Biosafety and International Law. In M.-C. Cordonier Segger, F. Perron-Welch, ... C. Frison (Eds.), Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (pp. 447-470). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Frison, C., Esquinas-Alcazar, J., & Lopez, F. (2011). Introduction - A Treaty to Fight Hunger: Past Negotiations, Present Situation, and Future Challenges. In C. Frison, F. Lopez, ... J. Esquinas-Alcazar (Eds.), Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security - Stakeholder Perspectives on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (pp. 1-23). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Frison, C., Lopez, F., & Esquinas-Alcazar, J. (2011). Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security – Stakeholder Perspectives on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Londres, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781849775762

Frison, C., Dedeurwaerdere, T., & Halewood, M. (2010). Intellectual Property and Facilitated Access to Genetic Resources under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. European Intellectual Property Review, 32 (1), 1-8.

Segger, M.-C. C., Perron-Welch, F., & Frison, C. (2010). Legal aspects of implementing the cartagena protocol on biosafety. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139047494

Frison, C. (2006). The Principles of Sustainable Development in the Context of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources in Food and Agriculture. McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, 2 (2), 155-174.

Frison, C. (2006). The International Treaty on Plant Genetic resources for Food and Agriculture from the Perspective of the Principles of International Law related to Sustainable Development. McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, 2 (2), 155-174.

Frison, C., & Joie, T. (2006). 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 T. McInerney (Ed.), Searching for Success – Narrative accounts of legal reform in developing and transition countries (pp. 151-164). Rome, Italy: IDLO.

Frison, C., & Joie, T. (2006). Élaboration 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, 2 (2), 166-182.

Frison, C., Chambers, B., & Kambu, A. (2005). Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge. In M. Gehring & M.-C. Cordonnier Segger (Eds.), Sustainable Developments in World Trade Law (pp. 297-326). La Haye, Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer.