PHILIPPE CULLET
 
 
Dr Philippe Cullet, LLM, MA (Lon), JSM, JSD (Stanford) is Professor of International and Environmental Law and the Director of the Law, Environment and Development Centre (LEDC) at SOAS University of London, the Convenor of IELRC and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in New Delhi.

Professor Cullet’s main areas of interest include environmental law, natural resources, human rights and the socio-economic aspects of intellectual property. He works on these at the international level and in India. His current research includes work on water law and governance with a particular focus on groundwater, drinking water, sanitation and institutional reforms in India; equity in environmental law; biodiversity, including benefit sharing and biosafety; and justice, with a particular focus on environmental and water rights.

Professor Cullet has published widely in his various areas of research. His monographs include Water Law, Poverty and Development – Water Law Reforms in India (Oxford University Press, 2009), Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development (Butterworths, 2005) and Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law (Ashgate, 2003).

He engages regularly with policymakers at the national and international levels. He was the Convenor of the Sub-group on Legal Issues Related to Groundwater Management and Regulation of the Planning Commission of India that prepared the draft Model Bill for the Conservation, Protection and Regulation of Groundwater, 2011, and a Member of the Planning Commission of India’s Sub-group that prepared the draft National Water Framework Law, 2011. In 2015-2016, he was a Member of the Government of India, Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation’s water law drafting committees, the Committee that prepared the Draft National Water Framework Law, 2016, the Committee that drafted the Model Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Act, 2016 and a Member of the Committee to ‘Draft River Basin Management Bill’.

Professor Cullet is also the Founding Editor of the Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD Journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by IELRC and SOAS.

Email: philippecullet 'at' gmail 'dot' com
 
 
 
Books and edited books
 
Right to Sanitation in India - Critical Perspectives
author(s): P. Cullet, S. Koonan & L. Bhullar
date: 2019
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Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South
author(s): Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan
date: 2019
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Groundwater and Climate Change - Multi-Level Law and Policy Perspectives
author(s): Philippe Cullet & Raya Marina Stephan (eds)
date: 2018
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Water Law in India - An Introduction to Legal Instruments (2nd edition)
author(s): Philippe Cullet & Sujith Koonan
date: 2017
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Sanitation Law and Policy in India - An Introduction to Basic Instruments
author(s): Philippe Cullet & Lovleen Bhullar (eds)
date: 2015
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Water Law in India - An Introduction to Legal Instruments
author(s): Philippe Cullet & Sujith Koonan
date: 2011
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Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws
author(s): P. Cullet, A. Gowlland-Gualtieri, R. Madhav & U. Ramanathan (eds)
date: 2010
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Water Law for the Twenty-First Century - National and International Aspects of Water Law Reform in India
author(s): Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav, Usha Ramanathan (eds)
date: 2009
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Water Law, Poverty, and Development - Water Sector Reforms in India
author(s): Philippe Cullet
date: 2009
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बौद्विक सम्‍पदा संरक्षण और टिकाऊ विकास
author(s): फिलिप कुलेट
date: 2008
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Intellectual Property Protection and Sustainable Development
author(s): P. Cullet
date: 2005
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Key Materials in International Environmental Law
author(s): Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri (eds)
date: 2004
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Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law
author(s): Philippe Cullet
date: 2003
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Droit international de l'environnement: textes de base et références
author(s): Caroline Dommen, Philippe Cullet (eds)
date: 1998
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Articles and book chapters
 
Model Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Bill, 2017: A New Paradigm for Groundwater Regulation
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Fostering the Realisation of the Right to Water: Need to Ensure Universal Free Provision and to Recognise Water as a Common Heritage
abstract      full text  354 [KB]
 
The Human Right to Water - A Testing Ground for Neoliberal Policies
abstract      full text  307 [KB]
 
Governing Groundwater - Fostering Participatory and Aquifer-Based Regulation
abstract      full text  340 [KB]
 
Water Law and Development - Comparative Perspectives
abstract      full text  393 [KB]
 
Governing Water to Foster Equity and Conservation: Need for New Legal Instruments
abstract      full text  81 [KB]
 
Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps
abstract      full text  313 [KB]
 
Water Regulation and Public Participation in the Indian Context
abstract      full text  1551 [KB]
 
Principle 7 - Common but Differentiated Responsibilities
abstract      full text  26 [KB]
 
Groundwater Law in India - Towards a Framework Ensuring Equitable Access and Aquifer Protection
abstract      full text  133 [KB]
 
Le principe des responsabilites communes mais differenciees en droit international de l'environnement: enjeux et perspectives
abstract      full text  367 [KB]
 
Right to Water in India - Plugging Conceptual and Practical Gaps
abstract      full text  198 [KB]
 
Governing the Environment without CoPs - The Case of Water
abstract      full text  329 [KB]
 
Proposed Union Water Laws: Need to Rethink the Premises
abstract      full text  125 [KB]
 
Is Water Policy the New Water Law? - Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms
abstract      full text  113 [KB]
 
The Groundwater Model Bill - Rethinking Regulation for the Primary Source of Water
abstract      full text  266 [KB]
 
Water Use and Rights - India
abstract      full text  1508 [KB]
 
Realisation of the Fundamental Right to Water in Rural Areas - Implications of the Evolving Policy Framework for Drinking Water
abstract      full text  277 [KB]
 
Water Law in a Globalised World: the Need for a New Conceptual Framework
abstract      full text  276 [KB]
 
Evolving Regulatory Framework for Rural Drinking Water - Need for Further Reforms
abstract      full text  566 [KB]
 
The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability: human rights and equity dimensions
abstract      full text  81 [KB]
 
Water Sector Reforms and Courts in India - Lessons from the Evolving Case Law
abstract      full text  233 [KB]
 
Environment and Development - The Missing Link
abstract      full text  272 [KB]
 
Drinking Water Reforms
abstract      full text  6400 [KB]
 
New Policy Framework for Rural Drinking Water Supply: Swajaldhara Guidelines
abstract      full text  185 [KB]
 
Environmental Justice in the Use, Knowledge and Exploitation of Genetic Resources
abstract      full text  140 [KB]
 
The Global Warming Regime After 2012 - Towards a Focus on Equity, Vulnerability and Human Rights
abstract      full text  170 [KB]
 
Liability and Redress for Human-Induced Global Warming - Towards an International Regime
abstract      full text  122 [KB]
 
Human Rights and Intellectual Property Protection in the TRIPS Era
abstract      full text  171 [KB]
 
Liability and Redress for Modern Biotechnology
abstract      full text  205 [KB]
 
Water Law Reforms - Analysis of Recent Developments
abstract      full text  77 [KB]
 
Agricultural Genetic Engineering, International Law and Development
abstract      full text  83 [KB]
 
Monsanto v Schmeiser: A Landmark Decision concerning Farmer Liability and Transgenic Contamination
abstract      full text  170 [KB]
 
Seeds Regulation, Food Security and Sustainable Development
abstract      full text  52 [KB]
 
Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security in the South
abstract      full text  1881 [KB]
 
Liability and GMOs: Towards a Redress Regime in Biosafety Protocol
abstract      full text  108 [KB]
 
Responsabilite et biotechnologie
abstract      full text  91 [KB]
 
Patents and Medicines: The Relationship Between TRIPS and the Human Right to Health
abstract      full text  100 [KB]
 
The Desertification Convention
abstract      full text  186 [KB]
 
Amended Patents Act and Access to Medicines after Doha
abstract      full text  41 [KB]
 
Property Rights over Biological Resources - India's Proposed Legislative Framework
abstract      full text  1304 [KB]
 
Plant Variety Protection in Africa: Towards Compliance with the TRIPS Agreement
abstract      full text  162 [KB]
 
Property Rights Regimes over Biological Resources
abstract      full text  137 [KB]
 
Patents Bill, TRIPS and the Right to Health
abstract      full text  44 [KB]
 
Revision of the TRIPS Agreement Concerning the Protection of Plant Varieties: Lessons from India Concerning the Development of a Sui Generis System
abstract      full text  2534 [KB]
 
Differential Treatment in International Law: Towards a new Paradigm of Inter-State Relations
abstract      full text  285 [KB]
 
Equity and Flexibility Mechanisms in the Climate Change Regime: Conceptual and Pratical Issues
abstract      full text  208 [KB]
 
Definition of an environmental right in a human rights context
abstract      full text  1361 [KB]
 
 
 
Co-authored articles and book chapters
 
Medical Patents and the Right to Health - From Monopoly Control to Open Access Innovation and Provision of Medicines
abstract      full text  235 [KB]
 
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South
abstract      full text  102 [KB]
 
Regulating the Interactions Between Climate Change and Groundwater: Lessons from India
abstract      full text  189 [KB]
 
Inter-Sectoral Water Allocation and Conflicts - Perspectives from Rajasthan
abstract      full text  340 [KB]
 
The Current Law of Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
abstract      full text  297 [KB]
 
Intellectual Property Rights, Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge
abstract      full text  255 [KB]
 
Flanking Policies in National and International Law
abstract      full text  244 [KB]
 
New Collective Policies
abstract      full text  231 [KB]
 
Water Investments and the Participation of Local Communities
abstract      full text  110 [KB]
 
Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Management: The Case of India
abstract      full text  162 [KB]
 
Plant Variety Protection and Farmers' Rights - Towards a Broader Understanding
abstract      full text  334 [KB]
 
Biological Diversity Management in Africa: Legal and Policy Perspectives in the Run-up to WSSD
abstract      full text  173 [KB]
 
Agro-biodiversity and International Law - A Conceptual Framework
abstract      full text  234 [KB]
 
Joint Implementation and Forestry Projects - Conceptual and Operational Fallacies
abstract      full text  129 [KB]
 
Law, Colonialism and Environmental Management in Africa
abstract      full text  246 [KB]
 
Dolphin Bycatches in Tuna Fisheries: A Smokescreen Hiding the Real Issues?
abstract      full text  1038 [KB]
 
 
 
Media and other Contributions
 
World Water Day: Time to Think Beyond the State Water Policy 2019
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The WASH Summit - Beyond Toilets and Behaviour Change
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Développement: Une occasion manquée?
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In Defence of Free Water - Beyond The Delhi Experiment
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Water as a Human Right and Economic Good: Policy Challenges for Europe
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Monsanto vs Schmeiser: Lessons from Canada
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The Patents Amendment Act and Access to Medicines
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Biodiversity Legislation Reflects India's Obligations
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Access to Drugs and the Patents Bill
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Farmers' Rights in Peril
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For an Alternative Patents Regime
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Working Papers
 
Groundwater - Towards a New Legal and Institutional Framework
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Groundwater Regulation - Need for Further Reforms
abstract      full text  74 [KB]
 
Water Law in India - Overview of Existing Framework and Proposed Reforms
abstract      full text  135 [KB]
 
Bharat mai jal kanunan evam jal kshetr ke sudhar
abstract      full text  167 [KB]
 
Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights: Need for a New Perspective
abstract      full text  239 [KB]
 
Liability and Redress in Biotechnology: Towards the Development of Rules at the National and International Levels
abstract      full text  297 [KB]
 
La responsabilite et le Protocole sur la biosecurite
abstract      full text  323 [KB]
 
Food Security and Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries
abstract      full text  652 [KB]
 
Sécurité alimentaire et droits de propriété intellectuelle dans les pays en développement
abstract      full text  192 [KB]
 
International Environmental Law in Domestic Courts: Switzerland
abstract      full text  376 [KB]
 
Le droit international de l'environnement dans la jurisprudence Suisse
abstract      full text  343 [KB]
 
Equity and Flexibility Mechanisms in the Climate Change Regime: Conceptual and Practical Issues
abstract      full text  359 [KB]
 
Droits de solidarité en droit international
abstract      full text  483 [KB]
 
   
   
   
 
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