The first workshop under the Indo-Swiss partnership was organised in Delhi from 8 to 10 December 2006. It was entitled Water, Law and the

Commons. It brought together a range of speakers from different disciplines who all presented written papers that are available on the workshop webpage .

•  Government of Malaysia, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment , Kuala Lumpur, 29 August 2006, Biosafety Forum on Liability and Redress, Keynote presentation on ‘Liability and Redress on Biosafety' by Dr Philippe Cullet

•  Conference on Land, Memory, Reconstruction and Justice : Perspectives on Land Restitution in South Africa , 13-15 September 2006, Houw Hoek Inn, Cape Town, Keynote Speech: Righting Wrongs - Confronting Dispossession in Post-Colonial Contexts by Dr. Patricia Kameri-Mbote

•  Conference on Environmental Law and Justice , 6-9 September 2006, Stockholm University , Department of Law, Papers presented by Dr Philippe Cullet ‘ Environmental Justice in the Use and Exploitation of Genetic Resources' and Dr Kameri-Mbote ‘Law, Gender and Environmental Resources: Excavating Women's Rights in Environmental Law'

•  Workshop on Democratisation of Water , National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, November 2006. Paper presented by Sujith Koonan ‘Groundwater Legal Regime in India' .

The second issue of 2006 (Volume 2/2) of LEAD journal has just been published. You may access it at http://www.lead-journal.org/current_issue.htm .

Articles are now invited for the next issue of LEAD journal. The deadline for submissions for the forthcoming issue is 30 June. Information concerning article submissions can be found at www.lead-journal.org/authors.htm . Please send your contributions to info@lead-journal.org

•  P. Cullet (with S. Biber-Klemm, T. Cottier & D. Szymura), ‘ The Current Law of Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge ', in S. Biber-Klemm & T. Cottier eds,

Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives ( Wallingford : CABI, 2006), p. 56.

•  P. Cullet (with C. Germann, A. Müller & G. Pasadilla), ‘ Intellectual Property Rights, Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge ', in S. Biber-Klemm & T. Cottier eds,

Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives ( Wallingford : CABI, 2006), p. 112.

•  P. Cullet (with S. Biber-Klemm, C. Germann, A. Müller & J. Curci), ‘ Flanking Policies in National and International Law ', in S. Biber-Klemm

& T. Cottier eds, Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives (Wallingford: CABI, 2006), p. 239.

•  P. Cullet (with S. Biber-Klemm & K. Kummer Peiry), ‘ New Collective Policies ', in S. Biber-Klemm & T. Cottier eds, Rights to Plant Genetic

Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives ( Wallingford : CABI, 2006), p. 283.

•  S. Muralidhar, ‘The Right to Water: An Overview of the Indian Legal Regime', in Eib e Riedel & Peter Rothen

eds., The Human Right to Water ( Berlin : Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2006), p. 65-81.

•  Patricia Kameri-Mbote, ‘ Women, Land Rights and the Environment: The

•  Usha Ramanathan , ‘ Illegality and the Urban Poor ', 41 Economic