Dr Christine Frison

Christine carried out legal studies in France and England, and obtained a complimentary Master in public international law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

She specialized in international environmental law by working both as a consultant for international institutions (UN-related) and national governments, as well as a legal research fellow at the Center for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Montréal (Canada, based at McGill University). She defended her joint-PhD entitled 'Towards Redesigning a Global Seed Commons' both at UCLouvain and KU Leuven (Belgium, under the co-supervision of professors Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Olivier De Schutter and Geertrui Van Overwalle), which analyses the intellectual property rights and collective action implications of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Christine currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship from the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO, 2017-2020) and is part of the 'Government & Law Research Group' of the University of Antwerp Law Faculty. She teaches 'International and European Environmental Law' at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and part of the 'Advanced course on International Sustainable Development Law' at the University of Antwerp (2018-2019).