New! Arctic Yearbook 2017 – Change & Innovation

The Arctic Yearbook 2017 is out. It includes several law-related articles.

E.g.,

Robert P. Wheelersburg & Sean Melvin, Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights in the Arctic

Dan Liu, The 2015 Oslo Declaration on Arctic High Seas Fisheries: The Starting Point Towards Future Fisheries Management in the Central Arctic Ocean

Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek, The Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation: From Paper to Practice

 

Arctic: How do polar bears, crude oil and ethnicity go together?

The Arctic is often in the headlines: starving polar bears on melting ice, the reckless hunt for raw materials, an increase in shipping, and the dispute over seal hunting. How should protecting the fragile ecosystem and the indigenous peoples who live there also be achieved? Kristina Schönfeldt from the University of Bonn has now edited a book that offers a systematic insight into the legal issues in this seemingly remote corner of the earth.

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