@inproceedings{oai:chikyu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002239,
 author = {小林, 邦彦 and Kobayashi, Kunihiko},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {application/pdf, Law is a legitimizing authority. Legitimacy is “the acceptance and justification of shared rule by a community” (Bernstein 2005). In liberal democratic systems, governments are typically legitimized through electoral processes, and their decisions are given weight by legislation (Boedeltje and Cornips 2004). In fact, as G. Sakamoto et al. (2016) pointed out, legitimacy depends on acceptance by the community or people, and the results of the acceptance, such as law. Legitimacy is one of the components for effective governance in sustainable development (Michael Lockwood 2010), because the cases that have a lack of legitimacy will result in conflict between the local community and the rights owner or a local authority. 
Given this context, this paper focuses on an aspect of law, with a particular focus on genetic resources in Vietnam. Genetic resource was stipulated in international conventions, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity（CBD）. In particular, CBD recognizes the sovereign rights of states over their natural resources, and their authority to control access to genetic resources. Being under the jurisdiction of the national governments, it is therefore subject to national legislation. However, CBD does not refer to the legal status of the genetic resource because that is dependent on the national legislation. Previous studies, such as Elisa Morgera（2013），Rosendal, G. Kristin（2016）have focused on the national ABS system but have not focused on legal status. 
This paper, therefore, aims to fill the gap and focus on the expanded legal nature of genetic resources in Vietnam. 
Survey results have shown that by reviewing relevant law documents on genetic resources in Vietnam, such as the Civil Code (2015 revised), Biodiversity Law (2008), and the Seed Ordinance (2004), genetic resource was clearly established as a people-owned property, as stipulated in the Biodiversity Law. People-owned property implies management by the State belonging to the entire people with the representation and centralized management of the State, as provided Civil Code. However, Seed Ordinance stipulated that “plant genetic resources are national property which is managed by State”, but at the adoption of Biodiversity Law, Ordinance wasn’t in force. This Ordinance was made by the National Assembly Standing Committee, and will be submitted to the Diet only after it is enforced for a certain period of time and deliberated on to determine whether it should be legalized or not. The Law on Promulgation of legislative documents provide the general legal framework of Vietnam and in accordance with its law, Law is a superior norm comparing with Ordinance. 
It may not be appropriate to compare the different legal nature of a Law and an Ordinance, however, this shift from being a national property to a people-owned property, is an immensely important aspect from the perspective of legitimacy. This is particularly true for the users of genetic resources, such as breeding companies, universities and farmers. The reason to occur such a shift will be surveyed as future challenge., 24th ISDRS（イタリア開催）のプロシーディング},
 title = {The Legal status of genetic resource in Vietnam from the perspective of legitimacy},
 year = {2018},
 yomi = {コバヤシ, クニヒコ}
}