International Advisors

International Advisors

International advisors acting in an honorary capacity provide Natural Justice with assistance in key areas of legal advice and strategic organizational management.

Brendan Tobin

Brendan Tobin is currently pursuing his PhD on customary law of Indigenous peoples and human rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. He was previously a Research Fellow at UNU-IAS with the Biodiplomacy Initiative, contributing research on bioethics, bioprospecting, traditional knowledge, and intellectual property rights and access and benefit sharing. In 1997, Tobin was awarded an Ashoka Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs for his work with Indigenous peoples in Peru.

Tomme Young

Tomme Young is an international consultant, assisting countries and international secretariats in addressing the technical challenges of environmental and social development in law and in implementing multilateral and bilateral international agreements. Previously the Senior Legal Officer of the IUCN International Environmental Law Centre, Young has published widely on biodiversity-related issues and continues to be a leader in critical thinking. She is also the Managing Editor of Environmental Policy and Law.

 

 

 

Publications

‘The Law Giveth and the Law Taketh Away’: The Case for Recognition of Customary Law in International ABS and Traditional Knowledge Governance (Brendan Tobin, 2010)
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Beyond Access: Exploring Implementation of the Fair and Equitable Sharing Commitment in the CBD (Morton Walloe Tvedt and Tomme Young, 2007)
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Latest News
  • 19th Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation
    Peter Wood, Natural Justice Associate, attended the 19th Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation, 9-10 February in London. The meeting focussed on the implementation of the EU Timber Regul …

  • MPCA Workshop in Uttarakkand
    Medicinal Plants Conservation Areas (MPCAs) in India are bioculturally rich areas of land with a high prevalence of endemic medicinal plants. MPCAs are usually demarcated by communities or by the gove …

  • Meeting on Increasing Number of BCR Lawyers
    On the 13th of February, Kabir Bavikatte and Harry Jonas (Natural Justice) met with Antara Lahiri (Ashoka Law for All) and Vivek Maru (Namati) to discuss how best to increase the numbers of lawyers fo …

  • Maldhari Community Claims Traditional Lands
    In the face of government attempts to ban livestock in their traditional grasslands, the Maldhari community of the Banni grasslands of Kutch, Gujarat, India sent notices to their state government dema …

  • New Article on Stewarding the Commons
    Natural Justice’s own Kabir Bavikatte recently authored “Stewarding the Commons: Rethinking Property and the Emergence of Biocultural Rights” for the Common Voices newsletter of the Dakshin Foundation …

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