Philippe Cullet
Biographic Data
| ID | 1114337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philippe Cullet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philippe |
| FAMILY NAME | Cullet |
| SIGNATURE | CULLET P |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1804-3290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction – Special issue on indigenous ecological knowledge in South Asia: Lessons for rights of nature discourses
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India
This Handbook is a response to the rapid growth of environmental and natural resources law over the past few decades in India. The discipline is now a distinct field of research and teaching. A Handbook focused on India is required because the country has been at the forefront of jurisprudential developments among countries with similar environmental, geographical, socio-economic, and cultural conditions. Concurrently, India has been receptive to…
The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law
In 2015, the United Nations established seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that aimed 'to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all' by 2030. The chapters within this collection address each of these SDGs, considering how they relate to one another and international law, and what institutions could aid their implementation. Development has been a contentious topic since the decolonization period after World War II, and issue…
Water Security and International Law
International law seeks to ensure water security and to prevent or resolve conflicts leading to water insecurity. This relationship is based on a hybrid framework comprising binding and nonbinding instruments. The multi-scalar dimensions of water (in)security are recognized, but further engagement is required. The link between international law and water (in)security is considered primarily through the lens of international water law, which focus…
Water Law in India
First published in 2011, Water Law in India is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of the legal instruments concerning water in India. It presents a variety of national and state-level instruments that make up the complex and diverse field of water law and policy. This book fills a critical gap in the study of water law, providing a rich reference point for the entire gamut of legal mechanisms available in India. This edition has been e…
Interstate River Basins, Water Transfers, and Dams
This chapter focuses on three related issues. The first section addresses the regulation of interstate river basins (an issue that is rapidly gaining importance) and interstate water dispute resolution. It reproduces select instruments seeking to foster basin-level regulation and protection of water and reproduces the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956, which remains one of the most visible water legislation because of the lengthy disputes brou…
Water Law and Policy in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments
This chapter provides a concise introduction and overview of water law and policy in India. It examines the overall regulatory framework governing water, from the constitutional provisions to the diverse sectoral laws, policies and administrative directions that make up water law. It also introduces some of the basic concepts, such as water rights, the right to water, state control, and public trust. It then analyses general developments over the…
The Sardar Sarovar Dam Project: Selected Documents
The Sardar Sarovar Project has been one of the most debated development projects of the past several decades at both an international level and within India itself. Cullet's volume brings together all the key documents relating to the project: including those pertaining to World Bank loans, the judicial pronouncements of the Supreme Court and documents relating to specific local level issues - in particular environment and rehabilitation. The wor…
Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps
Differential treatment in international environmental law is the broader manifestation of the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDRs). It reflects equity concerns that have underlain most environmental debates on a North-South basis for several decades. Over the past two decades, various forms of differentiation have been introduced in environmental law instruments to the point where it has become an essential element of a…
Right to water in India – plugging conceptual and practical gaps
This article examines the content of the human right to water. It starts from the premise that the right is firmly anchored in international and national law. It thus moves beyond debates concerning either the existence or the legal status of the right in favour of a more in-depth discussion of its content. It focuses on India, a country where the right is well entrenched at a broad level but where the actual content of the right is not well defi…
Is Water Policy the New Water Law? Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms
Water law and policy are in principle clearly distinct at the national and international levels. The \nformer is binding while the latter is not. Yet, over the past two decades, the respective space of water law \nand water policy has evolved to the point where the distinction between the two is sometimes sidelined. \nAt the international level, the increasing pre-eminence of water policy is due in part to the absence of \nbinding legal framework…
Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws
Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws focuses on the work undertaken by International Environmental Law Research Centre IELRC on water law reforms in India. It seeks to provide a broader understanding of the conceptual framework informing existing water law and ongoing reforms. The book is divided into two parts. The first part critically analyses the context of international law for water reforms…
Water Law for the Twenty-First Century
In the face of growing freshwater scarcity, most countries of the world are taking steps to conserve their water and foster its sustainable use. Water crises range from concerns of drinking water availability and/or quality, the degradation or contamination of freshwater, and the allocation of water to different users. To meet the challenge, many countries are undergoing systemic changes to the use of freshwater and the provision of water service…
Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Management: The Case of India
This article analyzes the impacts of the international legal framework for the promotion of intellectual property rights on India's legal regime concerning the control over biological resources and inventions derived from biological resources. It focuses in particular on the newly adopted Biodiversity Act and Plant Variety Act as well as on amendments to the Patents Act and their organic relationship within the overall domestic legal framework. I…
Responsabilité et biotechnologie
Introduction L’introduction légale ou illégale d’organismes transgéniques dans l’environnement pose un certain nombre de questions juridiques concernant les conséquences environnementales et socio-économiques du génie génétique. Les instruments juridiques internationaux concernant la biotechnologie se préoccupent à présent principalement de questions concernant l’acceptation des organismes transgéniques, par exemple, à travers la mise en œuvre d’…
Patents and medicines: The relationship between TRIPS and the human right to health
Journal Article Patents and medicines: the relationship between TRIPS and the human right to health Get access Philippe Cullet Philippe Cullet 1University of London and The International Environmental Law Research Centre in Geneva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 139–160, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00299 Published: 04 February 2003
Plant Variety Protection in Africa: Towards Compliance With the Trips Agreement
Plant variety protection has come to the fore in the wake of the adoption of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). TRIPS generally imposes the patentability of inventions, whether products or processes, in all fields of technology and specifically mandates the introduction of a form of legal protection on plant varieties. Article 27.3(b) thus states that member states “shall provide for the prot…
Differential treatment in international law: Towards a new paradigm of inter-state relations
International law has traditionally been based on the principle of sovereign equality of states. As a consequence, treaties have normally provided for similar obligations for all states. In recent decades, the expansion of the international community and the globalization of environmental and economic issues have led to the search for new legal tools to take into account existing disparities and inequalities among states and to foster a better im…
Joint Implementation and Forestry Projects: Conceptual and Operational Fallacies
The Framework Convention on Climate Change addressing the problem of global warming at the international level, was signed in 1992. A protocol to the convention, including emission limitation or reduction commitments, was recently adopted. Joint implementation (JI), in any of its various forms, constitutes one of the mechanisms for reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions. The basic rationale for JI is to achieve the greatest global environmenta…
Definition of an Environmental Right in a Human Rights Context
This article examines the theoretical background of a right to environment, its contents and the different ways to achieve implementation of the norm. Environmental protection is first ascertained as a universal concern which warrants consideration within a human rights context. Innovative features of the right such as the emphasis on prevention and on the principle of solidarity deriving from the internationalization of environmental problems ar…
Differential treatment in international law: Towards a new paradigm of inter-state relations
International law has traditionally been based on the principle of sovereign equality of states. As a consequence, treaties have normally provided for similar obligations for all states. In recent decades, the expansion of the international community and the globalization of environmental and economic issues have led to the search for new legal tools to take into account existing disparities and inequalities among states and to foster a better im…
Patents and medicines: The relationship between TRIPS and the human right to health
Journal Article Patents and medicines: the relationship between TRIPS and the human right to health Get access Philippe Cullet Philippe Cullet 1University of London and The International Environmental Law Research Centre in Geneva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 139–160, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00299 Published: 04 February 2003
Definition of an Environmental Right in a Human Rights Context
This article examines the theoretical background of a right to environment, its contents and the different ways to achieve implementation of the norm. Environmental protection is first ascertained as a universal concern which warrants consideration within a human rights context. Innovative features of the right such as the emphasis on prevention and on the principle of solidarity deriving from the internationalization of environmental problems ar…
Right to water in India – plugging conceptual and practical gaps
This article examines the content of the human right to water. It starts from the premise that the right is firmly anchored in international and national law. It thus moves beyond debates concerning either the existence or the legal status of the right in favour of a more in-depth discussion of its content. It focuses on India, a country where the right is well entrenched at a broad level but where the actual content of the right is not well defi…
Joint Implementation and Forestry Projects: Conceptual and Operational Fallacies
The Framework Convention on Climate Change addressing the problem of global warming at the international level, was signed in 1992. A protocol to the convention, including emission limitation or reduction commitments, was recently adopted. Joint implementation (JI), in any of its various forms, constitutes one of the mechanisms for reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions. The basic rationale for JI is to achieve the greatest global environmenta…
Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps
Differential treatment in international environmental law is the broader manifestation of the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDRs). It reflects equity concerns that have underlain most environmental debates on a North-South basis for several decades. Over the past two decades, various forms of differentiation have been introduced in environmental law instruments to the point where it has become an essential element of a…
Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Management: The Case of India
This article analyzes the impacts of the international legal framework for the promotion of intellectual property rights on India's legal regime concerning the control over biological resources and inventions derived from biological resources. It focuses in particular on the newly adopted Biodiversity Act and Plant Variety Act as well as on amendments to the Patents Act and their organic relationship within the overall domestic legal framework. I…
Definition of an Environmental Right in a Human Rights Context
This article examines the theoretical background of a right to environment, its contents and the different ways to achieve implementation of the norm. Environmental protection is first ascertained as a universal concern which warrants consideration within a human rights context. Innovative features of the right such as the emphasis on prevention and on the principle of solidarity deriving from the internationalization of environmental problems ar…
Joint Implementation and Forestry Projects: Conceptual and Operational Fallacies
The Framework Convention on Climate Change addressing the problem of global warming at the international level, was signed in 1992. A protocol to the convention, including emission limitation or reduction commitments, was recently adopted. Joint implementation (JI), in any of its various forms, constitutes one of the mechanisms for reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions. The basic rationale for JI is to achieve the greatest global environmenta…
Differential treatment in international law: Towards a new paradigm of inter-state relations
International law has traditionally been based on the principle of sovereign equality of states. As a consequence, treaties have normally provided for similar obligations for all states. In recent decades, the expansion of the international community and the globalization of environmental and economic issues have led to the search for new legal tools to take into account existing disparities and inequalities among states and to foster a better im…
Plant Variety Protection in Africa: Towards Compliance With the Trips Agreement
Plant variety protection has come to the fore in the wake of the adoption of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). TRIPS generally imposes the patentability of inventions, whether products or processes, in all fields of technology and specifically mandates the introduction of a form of legal protection on plant varieties. Article 27.3(b) thus states that member states “shall provide for the prot…
Patents and medicines: The relationship between TRIPS and the human right to health
Journal Article Patents and medicines: the relationship between TRIPS and the human right to health Get access Philippe Cullet Philippe Cullet 1University of London and The International Environmental Law Research Centre in Geneva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 1, January 2003, Pages 139–160, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00299 Published: 04 February 2003
Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Management: The Case of India
This article analyzes the impacts of the international legal framework for the promotion of intellectual property rights on India's legal regime concerning the control over biological resources and inventions derived from biological resources. It focuses in particular on the newly adopted Biodiversity Act and Plant Variety Act as well as on amendments to the Patents Act and their organic relationship within the overall domestic legal framework. I…
Responsabilité et biotechnologie
Introduction L’introduction légale ou illégale d’organismes transgéniques dans l’environnement pose un certain nombre de questions juridiques concernant les conséquences environnementales et socio-économiques du génie génétique. Les instruments juridiques internationaux concernant la biotechnologie se préoccupent à présent principalement de questions concernant l’acceptation des organismes transgéniques, par exemple, à travers la mise en œuvre d’…
Water Law for the Twenty-First Century
In the face of growing freshwater scarcity, most countries of the world are taking steps to conserve their water and foster its sustainable use. Water crises range from concerns of drinking water availability and/or quality, the degradation or contamination of freshwater, and the allocation of water to different users. To meet the challenge, many countries are undergoing systemic changes to the use of freshwater and the provision of water service…
Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws
Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws focuses on the work undertaken by International Environmental Law Research Centre IELRC on water law reforms in India. It seeks to provide a broader understanding of the conceptual framework informing existing water law and ongoing reforms. The book is divided into two parts. The first part critically analyses the context of international law for water reforms…
Right to water in India – plugging conceptual and practical gaps
This article examines the content of the human right to water. It starts from the premise that the right is firmly anchored in international and national law. It thus moves beyond debates concerning either the existence or the legal status of the right in favour of a more in-depth discussion of its content. It focuses on India, a country where the right is well entrenched at a broad level but where the actual content of the right is not well defi…
Is Water Policy the New Water Law? Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms
Water law and policy are in principle clearly distinct at the national and international levels. The \nformer is binding while the latter is not. Yet, over the past two decades, the respective space of water law \nand water policy has evolved to the point where the distinction between the two is sometimes sidelined. \nAt the international level, the increasing pre-eminence of water policy is due in part to the absence of \nbinding legal framework…
Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps
Differential treatment in international environmental law is the broader manifestation of the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDRs). It reflects equity concerns that have underlain most environmental debates on a North-South basis for several decades. Over the past two decades, various forms of differentiation have been introduced in environmental law instruments to the point where it has become an essential element of a…
The Sardar Sarovar Dam Project: Selected Documents
The Sardar Sarovar Project has been one of the most debated development projects of the past several decades at both an international level and within India itself. Cullet's volume brings together all the key documents relating to the project: including those pertaining to World Bank loans, the judicial pronouncements of the Supreme Court and documents relating to specific local level issues - in particular environment and rehabilitation. The wor…
Water Law in India
First published in 2011, Water Law in India is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of the legal instruments concerning water in India. It presents a variety of national and state-level instruments that make up the complex and diverse field of water law and policy. This book fills a critical gap in the study of water law, providing a rich reference point for the entire gamut of legal mechanisms available in India. This edition has been e…
Interstate River Basins, Water Transfers, and Dams
This chapter focuses on three related issues. The first section addresses the regulation of interstate river basins (an issue that is rapidly gaining importance) and interstate water dispute resolution. It reproduces select instruments seeking to foster basin-level regulation and protection of water and reproduces the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956, which remains one of the most visible water legislation because of the lengthy disputes brou…
Water Law and Policy in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments
This chapter provides a concise introduction and overview of water law and policy in India. It examines the overall regulatory framework governing water, from the constitutional provisions to the diverse sectoral laws, policies and administrative directions that make up water law. It also introduces some of the basic concepts, such as water rights, the right to water, state control, and public trust. It then analyses general developments over the…
Water Security and International Law
International law seeks to ensure water security and to prevent or resolve conflicts leading to water insecurity. This relationship is based on a hybrid framework comprising binding and nonbinding instruments. The multi-scalar dimensions of water (in)security are recognized, but further engagement is required. The link between international law and water (in)security is considered primarily through the lens of international water law, which focus…
The Cambridge Handbook of the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law
In 2015, the United Nations established seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that aimed 'to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all' by 2030. The chapters within this collection address each of these SDGs, considering how they relate to one another and international law, and what institutions could aid their implementation. Development has been a contentious topic since the decolonization period after World War II, and issue…
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India
This Handbook is a response to the rapid growth of environmental and natural resources law over the past few decades in India. The discipline is now a distinct field of research and teaching. A Handbook focused on India is required because the country has been at the forefront of jurisprudential developments among countries with similar environmental, geographical, socio-economic, and cultural conditions. Concurrently, India has been receptive to…
Introduction – Special issue on indigenous ecological knowledge in South Asia: Lessons for rights of nature discourses
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