• Legal Analysis of the GEF Resource Allocation Framework (Wiser) (May 2007)

• Prior and Informed Consent and Access to Genetic Resources (Olvia & Perrault) (WTO Public Symposium, Geneva) (April 2005)

• Eco-Labeling Standards, Green Procurement, and the WTO: Significance for World Bank Borrowers (March, 2005)

• CBD Request to WIPO on the Interrelation of Access to Genetic Resources and Disclosure Requirements: Establishing an adequate framework for a WIPO Response (South Centre/CIEL) (Fall 2004)
  

• Silent Invasion: Small Island Developing States and Invasive Alien Species -- An Overview (The Nature Conservancy/CIEL) (February 2004) [Discussion Draft]
  
  
• Silent Invasion: Small Island Developing States and Invasive Alien Species -- Building Capacity (The Nature Conservancy/CIEL) (February 2004) [Discussion Draft]
  
  

• Silent Invasion: Small Island Developing States and Invasive Alien Species -- Pathways and Control Measures (The Nature Conservancy/CIEL) (February 2004) [Discussion Draft]

• Issues Linked to the Convention on Biological Diversity in the World Trade Organization Negotiations: Implementing Doha Mandates (October 2002) (Vivas) [BW02-1]
  
  

• The International Debate on Traditional Knowledge as Prior Art in the Patent System: Issues and Options for Developing Countries (October 2002) (Ruiz) [BW02-2]

• What Agenda for the Review of TRIPS?: A Sustainable Development Perspective (Summer 2002) (Vivas) [BW02-3]

• Turning Off the Tap: Addressing International Invasive Alien Species Issues (One of eight issue briefs presented at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in August, 2002)

• Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights: Promoting Synergies for Sustainable Development (One of eight issue briefs presented at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in August, 2002)

• Biodiversity & Intellectual Property Rights:  Reviewing Intellectual Property Rights in Light of the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (World Wildlife Fund/CIEL) (Gonzales & Monagle) [BW01-1]

• Treatment of Biodiversity-Related Issues in the WTO: Preliminary Comments on the Revised Documents for the Doho Ministerial Conference (November, 2001) (Vivas & Tuerk) [BW01-2]
  
  

• Transparency in 21st Century Fisheries Management:  Options for Public Participation to Enhance Conservation and Management of International Fish Stocks (World Wildlife Fund/CIEL, 2000)  (Wiser)  [BW00-1]

• Community Registries of Biodiversity-Related Knowledge:  The Role of Intellectual Property in Managing Access and Benefit (1999) (Downes & Laird) [BW99-1]
  
  
• Innovative Mechanisms for Sharing Benefits of Biodiversity and Related Knowledge:  Case Studies on Geographical Indications and Trademarks (1999) (Downes & Laird) [BW99-2]
  
  
• Using Intellectual Knowledge as a Tool to Protect Traditional Knowledge, prepared for the Convention on Biological Diversity Workshop on Traditional Knowledge, Madrid, November 1997 (1999) (Downes) [BW99-3] 
  
  
• Tree Trade; Liberalization of International Commerce in Forest Products: Risks and Opportunities (World Resources Institute/CIEL 1999) (Sizer, Downes & Kaimowitz) [BW99-4]
  
  
• Effective Decision-Making: A Review of Options for Making Decisions to Conserve and Manage Pacific Fish Stocks (World Wildlife Fund/CIEL, 1999) (Wiser, Porter & Downes) [BW99-5]
  
  
• Comments on Improving Identification of Prior Art:  Recommendations on Traditional Knowledge Relating to Biological Diversity, Submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (1999) (Wiser & Downes) [BW99-6]
  
  
• Assessing the Effects on Forests of Proposed Trade Liberalization in the Forest Product Sector:  Comments Submitted to the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the Council on Environmental Equality (1999) (Downes) [BW99-7]
  
  
• Effective Dispute Resolution:  A Review of Options for Dispute Resolution Mechanisms and Procedures (World Wildlife Fund & CIEL, 1999) (Downes & Penhoet) [BW99-8]
  
  
• Detailed Statement in Support of Request for Reexamination of U.S. Plant Patent No. 5,751 (November, 1999) (Downes & Wiser) [BW99-9]
  
  
• Legal Elements of the "Ayahuasca" Patent Case (November, 1999) (Wiser) [BW99-10]
  
  

• Implication of Proposals to Consider Trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) at the WTO (1999) (Stilwell) [TE00-11]

• Fisheries Conservation and Trade Rules: Ensuring That Trade Law Promotes Sustainable Fisheries (CIEL/Greenpeace, 1998) (Downes & Van Dyke) [BW98-1]
  
  
• The 1999 WTO Review of Life Patenting Under TRIPS: Revised Discussion Paper (A Spanish version is also available) (November 1998) (Downes & Stilwell) [BW98-2]  
  
  

• Using Intellectual Property as a Tool to Protect Traditional Knowledge: Recommendations for Next Steps (November 1997) (Downes) [BW97-1]

• Biodiversity in the Seas: Conservation and Sustainable Use Through International Cooperation, CIEL Brief No. 4 (1996) (de Fontaubert & Downes) [BW96-1]
  
  
• Biodiversidad en los Mares: Conservación y Uso Sostenible a través de la Cooperación Internacional (traducción de 'Biodiversity in the Seas', CIEL Brief No. 4 (1996) (de Fontaubert & Downes) [BW96-2]
  
  
• Biodiversity in the Seas: Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity in Marine and Coastal Habitats (IUCN/CIEL/WWF, 1996) (de Fountaubert, Downes & Agardy) (republished in Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 10:753-854) [BW96-3]
  
  
• Agreements to Collect Biodiversity for Pharmaceutical Research: Major Issues and Proposed Principles, in Valuing Local Knowledge: Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights (Island Press, 1996) (Grifo & Downes) [BW96-4]
  
  
• Encouraging Private Sector Support for Biodiversity Conservation: The Use of Economic Incentives and Legal Tools (Conservation International, 1996) (Bowles, Clark, Downes & Guerin-McManus) [BW96-5]
  
  
• Global Trade, Local Economies and the Convention on Biological Diversity, in William J. Snape, ed., Biodiversity and the Law: Challenges and Opportunities (Island Press, 1996) (Downes) [BW96-6]
  
  
• Using Law to Protect the Environment: Case Studies from Around the World (United States Agency for International Development, 1996) (Saladin, Porter & Hunter, eds.) [BW96-7]
  
  
• What Price Biodiversity? Economics and Biodiversity Conservation in the United States (1995) (Clark & Downes)(republished in 11 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 9: 1996) [BW96-8]
  
  
• CITES and The Precautionary Principle: The Burden to Show that a Use is Sustainable (Humane Society of the United States, 1995) (Wold) [BW95-1]
  
  
• The New Listing Criteria Proposed by the Standing Committee Violate CITES and are Inconsistent with the Theory of Sustainable Use (Humane Society of the United States, 1995) (Wold) [BW95-2]
  
  
• The Relationship of CITES to the ITTA (International Tropical Timber Agreement) and ICCAT (International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna) (Humane Society of the United States, 1995) (Wold) [BW95-3]
  
  
• The Biodiversity Convention and Exisiting International Agreements: Opportunities for Synergy (Humane Society of the United States, 1995) (Wold) [BW95-6]
  
  
• The Relationship between the Trade Measures of CITES and the Provisions of GATT (Humane Society of the United States, 1995) (Wold) [BW95-4]
  
  
• Remembering Elephants at CITES (Endangered Species Update, 1994) (Wold) [BW94-1]
  
  
• New Diplomacy for the Biodiversity Trade: Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and Intellectual Property in the Convention on Biological Diversity, 4 Touro Journal of Transnational Law 1 (1993) (Downes) [BW93-1]
  
  
• Biodiversity Prospecting: Rules of the Game, 44 BioScience 381 (Wold & Downes) [BW93-2]

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