Publications
Conservation and Sustainable Use
Jeremy Rayner, David Humphreys, Frederic Perron Welch, Ravi Prabhu and Patrick Verkooijen, "Introduction" in Jeremy Rayner, Alexander Buck and Pia Katila, eds. Embracing Complexity: Meeting the Challenges of International Forest Governance - A Global Assessment Report. IUFRO World Series vol. 28. (Vienna: International Union of Forest Research Organizations, 2011).
Michael Howlett, Jeremy Rayner, Daniela Goehler, Eva Heidbreder, Frederic Perron-Welch, Olivier Rukundo, Patrick Verkooijen and Christoph Wildburger, "Overcoming the challenges to integration: embracing complexity in forest policy design through multi-level governance" in Jeremy Rayner, Alexander Buck and Pia Katila, eds. Embracing Complexity: Meeting the Challenges of International Forest Governance - A Global Assessment Report. IUFRO World Series vol. 28. (Vienna: International Union of Forest Research Organizations, 2011).
Frederic Perron-Welch, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Mexico's Solution for Offsetting Emissions while Respecting Indigenous and Local Community Rights (IDLO/CISDL Legal Working Paper Series on Sustainable Development Law on Climate Change, 2010).
Jorge Cabrera, Olivier Rukundo and Frederic Perron-Welch, The Interface between Sustainable Forest Management and Access and Benefit Sharing: Outlining Potential Areas of Synergy (Montreal: CISDL, 2010).
R. Salazar, J.Cabrera y A.López, eds., Biodiversidad: politicas y legislacion a la luz del Desarrollo Sostenible (San Jose: Fundacion AMBIO y Escuela de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional, 1994)
Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, "The legal basis of biodiversity use in the Republic of Costa Rica", working paper no. 18, International Academy of the Environment (Geneva: IAE, 1994).
Access and Benefit-Sharing
Chidi Oguamanam, "Genetic Resources, Access and Benefits Sharing: Politics, Prospects and Opportunities for Canada After Nagoya" (2011) 22 JELP 87.
Chidi Oguamanam, "Canada: Time to Take Access and Benefit Sharing over Genetic Resources Seriously" (2010) 60 UNBLJ 139.
Jorge Cabrera, "El Protocolo de Nagoya sobre acceso a recursos genéticos y la propiedad intelectual: un paso adelante, muchos por recorrer" (2010) 11(5) Puentes.
Jorge Cabrera and Olivier Rukundo, "Monitoring compliance: Disclosure requirements and the international certificate" (2010) 4(3) Bridges Trade BioRes Review 10.
Jorge Cabrera, Olivier Rukundo and Frederic Perron-Welch, The Interface between Sustainable Forest Management and Access and Benefit Sharing: Outlining Potential Areas of Synergy (Montreal: CISDL, 2010)
Jorge Cabrera, "The Relationship between the Access and Benefit Sharing International Regimen and other international instruments: the WTO and UPOV" (2010) 10(3) Sustainable Development Law and Policy 24.
Jorge Cabrera, "Intellectual property rights management, benefit sharing policies and practices of Costa Rica's INBio", Digital Development Debates.
Jorge Cabrera, "The Disclosure of Origin Requirement in Central America: Legal Texts, Practical Experience and Implementation Challenges", Issue Paper No. 3, 2010. ICTSD Programme on Natural Resources, International Trade and Sustainable Development.
Jorge Cabrera, "The Political Economy of the International ABS Regime Negotiations: Options and Synergies with Relevant IPR Instruments and Processes", Issue Paper No. 2, 2010. ICTSD Programme on Natural Resources, International Trade and Sustainable Development.
J. Cabrera Medaglia, "The political economy of the International ABS Regime negotiations: Options and synergies with relevant IPRs instruments and processes" at 69 in Triggering the Synergies between Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity (Eschborn, Germany: GTZ, 2010).
J. Cabrera Medaglia, "The disclosure of origin requirement in Central America: Legal texts, practical experience and implementation challenges" at 270 in Triggering the Synergies between Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity (Eschborn, Germany: GTZ, 2010).
O. Rukundo and S. Chung, "The new mandate for the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee: Relevance for the ongoing negotiations on an International Regime Access and Benefit Sharing at the CBD" at 108 in Triggering the Synergies between Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity (Eschborn, Germany: GTZ, 2010).
Jorge Cabrera, "Intellectual Property Rights Instruments and Alternative Options for Innovation in Public Universities and Research Centres" in R. Melendez and P. Roffe, eds. Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development (Edward Elgar, 2010).
Morten Walloe Tvedt and Olivier Rukundo, Functionality of an ABS Protocol, FNI Report 9/2010. (Lysaker: FNI, 2010).
Jorge Cabrera, Propriedad Intelectual, Biodiversidad y Comercio. Opciones para establecer sinergias entre los Acuerdos Ambientales y los Tratados de Comercio (San Jose: Universidad Nacional Estatal a Distancia, 2009).
Barbara Lassen, Gary Martin and Olivier Rukundo, "Bio-cultural Community Protocols and Protected Areas" at 52 in Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A Community Approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy (Nairobi: UNEP, 2009).
Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, "Intellectual Property Rights and Biological Diversity: Considerations for Latin America" in J.M. Martinez-Piva, ed. Knowledge Generation and Protection: Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Development (New York: Springer, 2009).
Jorge Cabrera, "The Role of the National Biodiversity Institute in the Use of Biodiversity for Sustainable Development: Forming Bio-prospecting Partnerships in E. Kamau and G. Winter, eds. Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and the Law (London: Earthscan, 2009).
Ana Lorena Guevara and Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, Viabilidad legal, económica y técnica de un régimen de certificados de origen/fuente/legal procedencia: La experiencia del INBio documentando y trazando recursos genéticos: el caso del International Cooperative Biodiversity Group entre la Universidad Harvard, la Universidad de Michigan y el Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad de Costa Rica (Lima, Peru: Peruvian Society for Environmental Law, 2008)
Jorge Cabrera Medaglia and Christian Lopez Silva, Addressing the Problems of Access: Protecting Sources, While Giving Users Certainty. (Gland: IUCN, 2007)
Lewis-Lettington RJ, Muller MR, Young TR, Nnadozie KA, Halewood M and Medaglia JC. Methodology for Developing Policies and Laws for Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing (Rome: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, 2006).
Kathryn Garforth and Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, "Legal Reform for the Development and Implementation of Measures on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing" in T.W. McInerney, ed., Searching for Success: Narrative Accounts of Legal Reform in Developing and Transition Countries, Lessons Learned Series No. 1, (Rome: IDLO, 2006).
Kathryn Garforth, Isabel Lopez Noriega, Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, Kent Nnadozie and Gabriel R. Nemoga, National and Regional Implementation of Measures on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing (Montreal: CISDL, 2005).
Jorge Cabrera, Access and Benefit Sharing in Costa Rica: Lessons Learned for the Monitoring and Tracking of Genetic Resources in Access Contracts (Montreal: CISDL, 2005).
Jorge Cabrera, A comparative analysis on the legislation and practices on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing: critical aspects for implementation and interpretation Bonn: IUCN ABS Project, 2004)
Kathryn Garforth, Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, Sustainable Biodiversity Law: Global Access, Local Benefits: A Scoping Study on Future Research Priorities for Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing (Montreal: CISDL 2004)
Jorge Cabrera and Kathryn Garforth, "Global access, local benefits: a new international ABS Regimen" in Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and Christopher Weeramantry, eds. Sustainable Justice: Integrating economic, social and environmental law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2004)
Jorge Cabrera, "The Central American Regional Protocol on access to genetic and biochemical resources" in C. Bellmann. G Dutfield and R Meléndez, eds. Trading in Knowledge. Developing perspectives on Trips, Trade and Sustainability (London: Earthscan, 2003)
Ana Sittenfeld, Jorge Cabrera y Marielos Mora, "Bioprospecting frameworks: policy issues for Island Countries" (2003) 12(1) Insula International Journal of Island Affairs
Kathryn Garforth, Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, Sustainable Biodiversity Law: Global Access, Local Benefits: A CISDL Legal Research Paper (Montreal: CISDL, 2003).
Jorge Cabrera, "Internet opportunities for policy makers: an access and benefit-sharing electronic conference" in (2002) Biotechnology and Development Monitor (Amsterdam)
Jorge Cabrera y Enrique Alarcón, "El acceso a los recursos genéticos y los derechos de propiedad intelectual" in Investigación agrícola y derechos de propiedad intelectual (Brasilia: IICA, 2000)
Jorge Cabrera, "Instrumentos de Mercado y Ambiente: un análisis jurídico de las prospecciones de biodiversidad en Costa Rica" (1997) 64(1) Revista Judicial
Jorge Cabrera, "Algunas Consideraciones generales sobre el marco legal que regula el acceso y derecho de uso de los recursos biológicos y genéticos de Costa Rica", (1997) 124-125 Revista IVSTITIA
Jorge Cabrera "Los Contratos para la Prospección de la Biodiversidad", Revista Acta Académica, (San José: UACA, Mayo 1995)
Intellectual Property
Chidi Oguamanam, Intellectual property in global governance: the crisis of equity in the knowledge economy, (London : Routledge, 2011).
Chidi Oguamanam, International law and indigenous knowledge: intellectual property, plant biodiversity, and traditional medicine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).
Chidi Oguamanam, "Localizing Intellectual Property in the Globalization Epoch: The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge" (2004) 11(2) Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.
Chidi Oguamanam, International law, plant biodiversity and the protection of indigenous knowledge: an examination of intellectual property rights in relation to traditional medicine (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2003).
Chidi Oguamanam, Biological diversity and intellectual property rights: the challenge of traditional knowledge (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 2000).
Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, "Prospecciones de Biodiversidad: uso sostenible de los recursos geneticos" (1994) 227 Revista Panorama Internacional.
Jorge Cabrera Medaglia, "Derechos de Propriedad Intelectual y Recursos Geneticos" en Diversidad Biologica y Desarrollo Sostenible (San Jose: Revista Acta Academica, 1993)
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Jorge Cabrera, "Policias y legislacion en material de bosques y agrobiodiversidad en Centroamerica en funcion de la seguridad alimentaria" en Enrique Ulate, ed. Derecho International, Derecho Comunitario y Derechos Humanos (San Jose, 2009).
Chidi Oguamanam, "Regime Tension in the Intellectual Property Rights Arena: Farmers' Rights and Post-TRIPS Counter Regime Trends" (2006) 29(2) Dalhousie Law Journal 413.
Sustainable Development Law on Biosafety
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Frederic Perron-Welch and Christine Frison, Biosafety Becomes Binding: Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol, Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.
Martin Endicott, Christine Frison and Kathryn Garforth with Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Jorge Cabrera, and Sylvestre Manga, Innovations in Biosafety Law: A CISDL Working Paper (Montreal: CISDL, 2005).
Kathryn Garforth, "When biosafety becomes binding: the Cartagena Protocol" in Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and C.G. Weermantry Sustainable Justice: reconciling economic, social and environmental law (Leiden, NL: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005).
Kathryn Garforth, When biosafety becomes binding: Marking the entry into force of the UN Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Montreal: CISDL, 2003).