Christine Frison is a FNRS post-doctoral researcher at the Law Faculty of UCLouvain, an associate researcher in the Government & Law research group at the University of Antwerp, and an associate legal fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (McGill University, Canada). She holds a PhD jointly conducted in Belgium at the Center for IT&IP Law (KU Leuven) & Center for Philosophy of Law (UCLouvain) and an LL.M (Public International Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles) after carrying out studies in France and the UK. Her latest research dives into digital sequence information on seed varieties, analysing how genetic resources sequencing is governed in international negotiations (Aubry, Frison et al., 2021). She teaches sustainable development law at UCLouvain and has taught international environmental law in various universities (Université Libre de Bruxelles, UAntwerp, and occasionally at SciencesPo Paris & other European universities). She has been a consultant for international organisations (e.g., European Commission, Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nation Environment Program, Bioversity International, etc.) and for the Belgian Federal Ministry of Environment. She published numerous articles and five books, the main one being Redesigning the Global Seed Commons: Law and Policy for Agrobiodiversity and Food Security. She received four awards for her research.
Areas of Expertise:
- International Environmental Law with a focus on Biodiversity
- Agrobiodiversity Law and Governance
Selected Publications:
- Sylvain, A. et al. (2022) Bringing access and benefit sharing into the digital age.
- Sievers-Glotzbach, S. et al. (2021) Beyond the material : knowledge aspects in seed commoning.
- Frison, C. (2018) Redesigning the global seeds commons : law and policy for agrobiodiversity and food security.
Full Publication List: repository.uantwerpen.be/acadbib/irua/16355/N
Selected Projects:
- 2017 - 2020 - Governing Seeds as a Commons for Food Security: A Normative Shift from Appropriation to Sharing.