The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland is thrilled to announce the release of Volume 12 of the Current Developments in Arctic Law (CDAL).

The newest volume brings together a diverse collection of short
academic articles, a commentary, a workshop report, and a note from the editor. The
contributions provide valuable insights for academics, practitioners, and
policymakers engaged in Arctic matters.

The volume covered
a range of topics, including the Arctic’s position in an ever-changing global order
scenario, science diplomacy in the Arctic’s legal developments, potential expansion
of transnational organized crimes responding to the Arctic’s new reality, politics
and public opinion surrounding the deep seabed mining in Norway, cross-border
cooperation in the context of Nordic forest policies, human rights impacts resulting
from regulatory challenges concerning the aboriginal subsistence whaling, legal
challenges and unified civil liability regime for Arctic oil exploration in the
fractured geopolitical climate, ownership of Indigenous archives in the Sápmi, legal
challenges concerning Arctic water justice, a report highlighting key workshop
messages reviewing Japan’s Arctic Policy 2015–25, etc.

The
CDAL is an open-access annual publication of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic
Law, produced in collaboration with the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and
Education.

The articles published in the volume are not
strictly peer-reviewed but are considered scientific.

The
volume can be downloaded from the following link: Current
Developments in Arctic Law. Vol. 12 (2024)


More information:

Kamrul Hossain, Research
professor
Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Kamrul.hossain(at)ulapland.fi
+35840 484 4281