New publication!
Governance of Arctic Shipping
Balancing Rights and Interests of Arctic States and User States

Edited by Robert C. Beckman, National University of Singapore; Tore Henriksen, UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø; Kristine Dalaker Kraabel, UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø; Erik J. Molenaar, Utrecht University; and J. Ashley Roach, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of State (retired)

Brill 2017

Details from a Defense Ministry report show that Moscow is not happy with Norway’s attempt to establish absolute national jurisdiction over Svalbard and its shelf.

Source: Kommersant: Russia lists Norway’s Svalbard policy as potential risk of war

Law professor doubts that the Norwegian government unilaterally can regulate Swedish husbandry on the Norwegian side of the border.

Source: Norway, Sweden in quarrel over cross-border reindeer grazing

The international campaign to end the use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) by ships plying the waters of the increasingly accessible Arctic is gathering steam ahead of an important meeting of the world maritime body next year.

Source: Efforts to ban heavy fuel oil in the Arctic gather steam

Thanks to Joël Plouffe and Heather Exner-Pirot. They have compiled a list of major Arctic related events and developments. 2017 was really an eventful year! What might bring the remaining three months of this year?!

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