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NEWS ARCHIVE: 2004


Montreal | Wednesday December 01, 2004
Book Launch Reception: Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Prospects & Practices
Oxford University Press and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law are very pleased to announce the launching reception for their new book, Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Prospects and Practices, by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and Ashfaq Khalfan, on Wednesday, December 01 from 5.15pm to 7.00pm. The Reception will be in the Common Room of the Old Chancellor Day Hall, McGill University Law Faculty, 3660 Peel St. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and all friends of the CISDL are invited. Dean Nicholas Kasirer and Hon. Judge Charles Gonthier, Wainwright Senior Research Fellow at McGill Law Faculty and Counsel, McCarthy Tetrault, will host the book launch with champagne and strawberries, also wine and cheese.

Announcing Publication of ‘Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practices and Prospects’ with Oxford University Press | December, 2004.
Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practices and Prospects, the textbook, analyses recent developments in international sustainable development law (ISDL), a field emerging at the intersection between international economic, environmental, and social law. Hundreds of new bi-lateral, regional, and global treaties have been negotiated in the areas of trade, environment, and development over the past two decades, yet most of them face implementation challenges. At the same time, disputes over human rights, environmental protection, and economic development are increasingly common. This book provides a long awaited coherent approach which can address conflicts and overlaps between international economic, environmental, and social development law. It surveys the international law related to sustainable development; discussing proposed principles, offering case studies that examine innovative integrated practices, and reflecting on future legal research agendas. The book is especially designed for law, politics, environment and development classes, and for reference by instructors and officials with governments and inter governmental organisations. For a 20% discount, download an order form here, or link to Oxford University Press [www.oup.co.uk]. To host a launching event in your country, or a session in the upcoming international lecture tour for the book, please contact secretariat@cisdl.org.Order Form

Montreal | Tuesday November 30, 2004
Legal Panel Event: Governance, Economic Development & the Law, 4pm – 6pm, McGill Law Faculty
The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law invites all to a Panel Event on Governance, Economic Development & the Law, featuring members of the CISDL Board of Governors and distinguished scholars such as Prof. Armand de Mestral, Jean Monnet Chair in the Law of International Economic Integration & Co-Director, Institute of European Studies (McGill-Université de Montréal), Prof. Adelle Blackett, CRIMT (McGill Law Faculty), Prof. Myron Frankman, Director, McGill Development Studies Programme, and Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Director, CISDL and British Chevening Scholar, Oxford Faculty of Law. The Panel is chaired by Hon. Judge Charles Gonthier, Wainwright Senior Research Fellow at McGill Law Faculty and Counsel, McCarthy Tetrault, and Ashfaq Khalfan, CISDL Director, on Tuesday, November 30 from 4.00pm to 6.00pm. The Panel Event will be held in the Common Room of the Old Chancellor Day Hall, McGill University Law Faculty, 3660 Peel St. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and all professors, scholars, students and members of the public are welcome.* invited by not yet confirmed


Montreal | Wednesday, 5 November 2004
CISDL invites you to a poster session with the participants in the 'Laying the Foundations' access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing workshop.The four participants are working with NGOs in their home countries - Costa Rica, India, Kenya, and Peru - and have been in Montreal for three weeks to work together on collaborative research projects related to genetic resources and law. Please join us for an informal discussion of the work they have been doing at home and in Montreal. The event will take place on Wednesday, November 3rd from noon to 2 pm in the Atrium of New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill Faculty of Law, 3644 Peel St. For more information contact Kathryn Garforth, Workshop Coordinator, kgarforth@cisdl.org

Montreal | 18 October-5 November 2004
CISDL is hosting four junior legal researchers from Costa Rica, India, Kenya and Peru for a three-week workshop in Montreal on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing. The workshop is part of the 'Laying the Foundations' project, which CISDL is undertaking in partnership with Gene Campaign in India, the Southern Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research Institute in Kenya, and the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law.While in Canada, the researchers will engage in collaborative research projects, meet with various individuals and organizations involved in the access and benefit-sharing debate in order to form their own network of contacts, and learn about some of the background to the issue. The workshop is made possible thanks to funding from the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa. For more information, please contact Kathryn Garforth, Workshop & CISDL Project Coordinator, at kgarforth@cisdl.org.

Nairobi, Kenya | 11-13 October 2004

WAVE (Women As the Voice for the Environment) UNEP's Global Women's Assembly on Environment

CISDL, along with many global and grassroots civil society organisations and experts, participated in the WAVE conference in Nairobi, and the following UNEP Experts Group on Gender and Environment, to discuss and debate issues relating to gender equality and women's empowerment. The 2004 WAVE endorsed a new legal research and awareness-raising project on Gender, Sustainable Development and International Law, to result in a new book and set of educational resource materials by March, 2006. The Experts Group advised UNEP on contents, including analysis of international treaties, for the upcoming 2004 GEO Feature Focus on Gender and Environment. See:
http://www.iisd.ca/sd/unep/wave/ for coverage of the UNEP WAVE.CISDL plans, in collaboration with other members of the ILSD Partnership (UNEP, World Bank, IDLO and ILA) to host an experts panel event at the upcoming Governing Council of UNEP in Nairobi, 2005, which will contribute to the legal analysis and research, also providing a platform for the African launches of two new books: 'Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practices and Prospects'(OUP, 2004) and 'Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law' (Martinus Nijhoff, 2004).

Montreal | Tuesday August 17, 2004
The CISDL is honoured to host Ambassador Donald Stephenson, Permanent Canadian Representative and Ambassador to the Office of the United Nations and to the World Trade Organization, for a "brown bag lunch" on Tuesday, 17 August 2004. The event will be held at the McGill Faculty of Law between 12.00 noon and 1.15pm in the Old Chancellor Day Hall Common Room.A companionable open discussion will focus on ways that international trade law can deliver on its sustainable development objectives, particularly in the context of the new WTO 'Doha Development Agenda.' Legal scholars, graduate and law students, professionals and others who wish to attend are asked to email mkerr@cisdl.org to confirm their participation.

Montreal | August 13, 2004

Release of CISDL Scoping Study on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing
Today, CISDL releases a scoping study on future research priorities for access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing (ABS). The study sets the context for current international discussions on ABS and presents some of the interests of developing countries and local and indigenous communities in ABS. It includes a set of research priorities in seven different areas of ABS. These research questions were identified on the basis of consultations with experts in the field. The study concludes with a set of four recommendations for research funding bodies. The CISDL ABS Scoping Study was made possible by funding from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada.

CISDL ABS Scoping Study

Oxford | Friday July 02, 2004
DEVELOPING THE UNDERLYING VALUES FOR A SUSTAINABLE GLOBALISATION
"Liberty, Equality and Fraternity Revisited"
Academic Workshop, Oxford University2-5pm, Room B, International Relations, George St.This Academic Workshop, hosted by Hon. Charles Gonthier, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada and Wainwright Senior Research Fellow of the McGill University Faculty of Law, gathers international relations and law scholars to consider the values to provide foundations for a more sustainable globalisation. Participants will discuss recent developments at the intersection of international economic, environmental and human rights law. Debate will focus on one of the most potent and under-explored values of western political and legal philosophy: fraternity, the underlying sense of solidarity or membership that makes up a society, and its implications for international law and policy in a changing world. With discussants Richard Tarasofsky, Royal Institute of International Affairs (London), Bradnee Chambers, United Nations University (Tokyo), and Duncan French, International Law Association Committee on International Law on Sustainable Development, the academic dialogue seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the character and meaning of these values in a rapidly changing, increasingly inter-dependent global society.The results of the workshop will form the basis for part of a new book, 'Sustainable Justice', co-edited by CISDL Director Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice H.E. Christopher G. Weeramantry (Martinus Nijhoff, 2004).To register, email secretariat(a)cisdl.org before June 30, 2004.

MTL Law -- Gonthier


Montreal | Wednesday June 16, 2004
Public Forum on Biodiversity, Intellectual Property Rights, and Sustainable Development CISDL is hosting a Public Forum on Biodiversity, Intellectual Property Rights, and Sustainable Development on Wednesday, June 16 from 4pm to 6pm. The event will be in room 202, New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill Faculty of Law, 3660 Peel St. CISDL is pleased to welcome three speakers as part of the event: Prof. Wendy Adams, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, McGill Faculty of Law (Montreal); Kent Nnadozie, Southern Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (Nairobi); and Geoff Tansey, consultant to the Quaker United Nations Office (Geneva) and Quaker International Affairs Programme (Ottawa). The Forum will be chaired by Kathryn Garforth, Research Fellow, CISDL. For more information or to register, please contact kgarforth@cisdl.org.


New York, USA | April 23, 2004
Sustainable Development Law: Issues, Intersections and Instruments Panel at the United Nations:
CISDL, in collaboration with ILA and IDLO, will host an experts panel event at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, as. The session will focus on "International Law for Sustainable Development," an innovative partnership between CISDL, IDLO and ILA, along with the UNEP, the World Bank and several developing country faculties of law, to further the development and implementation of international sustainable development law. It will seek advice on the structure of a new textbook in sustainable development law (SD Law: Issues, Intersections and Instruments), highlight the Partnerships’ recent work on legal aspects of water tenure and water rights, and discuss the potential for a new research network to investigate significant legal developments in this field.

Montreal | Friday April 02, 2004
Sustainable Globalization? New Directions in Law and Policy
The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, on the occasion of its 2004 Annual Meeting, is hosting an International Law Seminar session: From 2pm to 5pm, on Friday April 2nd, 2004, in the Old Chancellor Day Hall, Common Room of the McGill Faculty of Law, 3660 Peel St., Montreal. The Session will be chaired by Hon. Judge Charles Gonthier, Senior Wainwright Fellow, McGill Law Faculty and Marie-Clare Cordonier Segger, Director, CISDL. The International Law Seminar will be divided in 2 Sessions. First, ‘Global Intersections between Economic and Environmental Law & Policy’ (2.00pm to 3.30pm) will be presented by Markus Gehring, Germany (The Doha Development Round); Carolyn Deere, Australia (WIPO and the WTO TRIPs Agreement)’ Xueman Wang, China (Beyond the Kyoto Protocol) and Micheal Kerr, Australia (International Law and Corporate Social Responsibility). The second session ‘Global Intersections between Social and Environmental Law & Policy’ (3.30pm to 5.00pm) will be presented by Ashfaq Khalfan, Kenya (Water as a Human Right); Maya Prabhu, Canada (The WHO Tobacco Convention); Kathryn Garforth, Canada (The CBD Biosafety Protocol); and Jorge Cabrera, Costa Rica (A New International ABS Regime).* The CISDL would like to thank the McGill Faculty of Law for their hospitality in this matter.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 26 February, 2004
Introducing a New Manual: Biosafety for Decision-Makers
On Thursday, February 26th, CISDL will host a side event introducing its manual on 'Biosafety for Decision-Makers' at the first Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The side event is an opportunity to present a draft of the manual, hear from members of the Advisory Council to the project, and solicit feedback to ensure the manual will be a useful tool for decision-makers.

Poster: PDF - 1.8 mb

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 14 February, 2004
Access and Benefit-Sharing New Research Priorities Meeting
Coinciding with the 7th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, CISDL held a successful brainstorming workshop on new research priorities for the proposed international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing (ABS). The meeting included leading actors in the field of ABS from both developing and developed countries. The brainstorming built on the research questions identified during the CISDL side event to the second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on ABS in December 2003. The questions that arose during the brainstorming workshop will be used as the basis for further scoping work to inform future CISDL projects in this area and will also be of assistance to various funding agencies as they set their priorities in this area.

Montreal, Canada |11 February, 2004
Competition law has different faces around the world.International Competition rules were first developed in the European Economic Community. Increasing globalization has led to a serious international debate about competition rules and competition cooperation. What are some of the different approaches betweenEurope and North-America. How does this increased cooperation relate to the internationally recognized goal of sustainable development. How does anti-trust and SD law interact? Will international competition rules favor or jeopardize the goal of SD and what is the most appropriate forum under SD considerations? These questions will be addressed in a joint CISDL – Institute for European Studies academic workshop "Competition Law and Sustainable Development - Impressions from the European Union and for International Competition Cooperation". Wednesday, February 11, 2004 (1pm), New Chancellor Day Hall Room 102, 3644 Peel Street, Montreal.
THE WORKING PAPER: PDF file

Register with kkessaris@cisdl.org 



 

  
 
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