Full Description
The Yearbook of Polar Law is based at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Akureyri in Iceland and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland and covers a wide variety of topics relating to the Arctic and the Antarctic. These include:
- human rights issues, such as autonomy and self-government vs. self-determination, the rights of indigenous peoples to land and natural resources and cultural rights and cultural heritage, indigenous traditional knowledge,
- local, national, regional and international governance issues,
- environmental law, climate change, security and environment implications of climate change, protected areas and species,
- regulatory, governance and management agreements and arrangements for marine environments, marine mammals, fisheries conservation and other biological/mineral/oil resources,
- law of the sea, the retreating sea ice, continental shelf claims,
- territorial claims and border disputes on both land and at sea,
- peace and security, dispute settlement,
- jurisdictional and other issues with regard to the exploration, exploitation and shipping of oil, gas and minerals, bio prospecting,
- trade law, potential shipping lines through the northwest and northeast passages, maritime law and transportation law, and
- the roles and actual involvement of international organisations in the Polar Regions, such as the Arctic Council, the Antarctic Treaty System, the European Union, the International Whaling Commission, the Nordic Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the United Nations, as well as NGOs.
The papers in this volume are principally based on presentations at the 11th Polar Law Symposium, held in Tromsø, Norway, in October 2018.
Contents
Preface
Nigel Bankes, Tore Henriksen and Erik Molenaar
In Memoriam - Ágúst Þór Árnason, 26 May 1954-11 April 2019
Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Guðmundur Alfreðsson
Opening Address
Ms Aili Keskitalo
The Constitutional History of Greenland
Speech by the Minister for Mineral Resources, Labour, Interior and Nordic Co-operation
Mr Vittus Qujaukitsoq
The Arctic: Press, Policy and the Arctic Council
Yelena Yermakova
Steady as She Goes? Structure, Change Agents, and the Evolution of the Arctic Council
Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek
Arctic Ocean Management and Indigenous Peoples: Recent Legal Developments
Nigel Bankes
An Icelandic Perspective: Opening the Arctic Ocean
Ragnar Baldursson
The Role of the Law of the Sea in Climate Change Litigation
Elise Johansen
Four Principles to Justify Claims to Jurisdiction and to Natural Resources in Antarctica
Alejandra Mancilla
Denmark's Obligations Regarding Mineral Resources in Greenland
Bent Ole Gram Mortensen and Ulrike Fleth-Barten
The Greenland Reconciliation Commission: Moving Away from a Legal Framework
Astrid Nonbo Andersen
Mare Nullius or Mare Suum? Using Ethnography to Debate Rights to Marine Resources in Coastal Sámi Communities of Troms
Apostolos Tsiouvalas
History of Polar Law: Professor Atle Grahl-Madsen and the Seminars on the Small Nations of the North
Gudmundur Alfredsson, Gun-Mari Lindholm, Göran Lindholm, and Elisabeth Nauclér
Book Reviews
Paul Arthur Berkman, Alexander N. Vylegzhanin, Oran R Young (eds), Baseline of Russian Arctic Laws
Viatcheslav Gavrilov
James R May, Erin Daly (eds), Human Rights and the Environment: Legality, Indivisibility, Dignity and Geography
Joëlle Klein
Akiho Shibata, Leilei Zou, Nikolas Sellheim and Marzia Scopelliti (eds), Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic: The Role of Non-Arctic Actors
Adam Stepien
