2-3 December 2011 (Raeburn Room, Old College)

The workshop aims to analyse the implications of the Nagoya Protocol for different areas of international law: international environmental law, trade, IPRs, human and indigenous rights, global health governance, and food security. In addition, the workshop will explore the implementation challenges arising from the Protocol in different regions (the EU and its Member States, Africa, Asia and Latin America) and the perspectives of different groups of stakeholders (indigenous and local communities, the research community, the private sector, and legal advisors involved in international development cooperation projects).

These aims will be achieved by creating a synergetic dialogue between academics, legal officers in key UN bodies, key negotiators of the Protocol and stakeholders that participated in the Protocol negotiations or are currently pioneering its implementation.

The workshop will lead to the publication of an edited collection - E. Morgera, M. Buck and E. Tsioumani (eds.), The Nagoya Protocol in Perspective: Implications for International Law and Implementation Challenges (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, forthcoming 2012). 

The workshop is organized thanks to the generous contributions of the Edinburh University School of Law, AHRC/Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, the Europa Institute (Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence) and the Scottish Centre for International Law of the University of Edinburgh.

• Introduction to the objectives of the conference (Dr Elisa Morgera, University of Edinburgh)

• Open discussion on a draft commentary to the Nagoya Protocol (Matthias Buck, Elisa Morgera and Elsa Tsioumani) - chair: Ruth Mackenzie (University of Westminster)

Video: http://podcast.is.ed.ac.uk:8080/Podcasts/law/2012-01-30/Nagoya_Protocol-video-1.mp4  

Chair: Prof. Alan Boyle (University of Edinburgh)

• International Environmental Law (Lyle Glowka and Valerie Normand, Convention on Biological Diversity)
• Human Rights (Annalisa Savaresi, University of Copenhagen) 
• Indigenous Peoples' Rights (Dr. Alphonse Kambu, UN Environment Programme)
• Law of the Sea (Charlotte Salpin, UN Division on Oceans Affairs and the Law of the Sea)

• Africa (Harry Jonas, Natural Justice)
• Latin America (Prof. Jorge Cabrera, University of Costa Rica)
• Asia and Pacific (Gurdial Singh Nijar, University of Malaysia) - written contribution
• Europe: The EU perspective (Vassilis Koutsiouris and Hugo Schally, European Commission)
• Europe: A Member State perspective (Prof. Alejandro Lago, Universidad Juan Carlos)
• JUSCANZ (Geoff Burton, United Nations University)

Video: http://podcast.is.ed.ac.uk:8080/Podcasts/law/2012-01-30/Nagoya_Protocol-video-3.mp4

Chair: Dr. Paul Oldham (Lancaster University)

• Specialized ABS regimes (Dr Stefan Jungcurt, Council of Canadian Academies)
• The role of private international law under the Nagoya Protocol (Dr Claudio Chiarolla, IDDRI)
• An international cooperation perspective (Tomme Young)
• Implications for corporate social responsibility (Maria Julia Oliva, Union for Ethical BioTrade)
• Challenges for the Research Community (Prof. Derdeurwaerdere, Universite Catholique de Louvain and Dr Selim Louafi, CIRAD-Agricultural Research for Development)