The Fifth Polar Law Symposium was held at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland) where leading experts in the field of Polar Law and Arctic Governance were brought together. The symposium covered a wide variety of topics relating to the Arctic and Antarctic. Topics includes: international and constitutional law, European Union in the Arctic, Climate change , security and geopolitics in the polar regions, regulating shipping in the Arctic, Changing economies in the North, International governance in the polar regions and Indigenous governance in-between international and national law. The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM), Arctic Centre, University of Lapland host the Symposium and the city of Rovaniemi and Kemijoki Ltd are the main partners of the Symposium.
Mr. Matti Ansala, Deputy Mayor, City of Rovaniemi
Rector Mauri Ylä-Kotola, Rector of the University of Lapland
Professor Paula Kankaanpää, Director of the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Professor Timo Koivurova, Director of NIEM, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
HE Anton Vasiliev, Ambassador-at-Large, Senior Arctic Official, Russian Federation. "Russia's Perspectives on Cooperation in the Arctic."
Tony Penikett, Former Premier of Yukon, Canada. "Destiny or Dream: Nunavut Devolution, sharing resources revenues, jurisdiction and political power?"
Keynote: Donald R. Rothwell, Australian National University.The Polar Regions and the Development of International Law: Contemporary reflections and Twenty-First Century challenges”
Ilina Olga. The positive constitutional legal responsibility of the state for the use and protection of natural resources as bases of life and activity of the indigenous minorities living in the respective territory of Russia.
Katja Göcke. Uranium Mining in Nunavut – Who’s Watching the Watchdog?
Agust Thor Arnason. Making of a Modern Constitution: The Danish Constitutional Heritage in the West-Nordic Countries
Rachael Lorna Johnstone. How much diligence is due? The no-harm principle and offshore hydrocarbon exploitation in the High North
Bent Ole Gram Mortensen. Impact assessments in Greenland
Hannah Strauss. Impact assessment and benefit agreements in Arctic energy development: formalisation of emerging practices
Erik Franckx. The Northern Sea Route: Shipping Season 2011
Anthony Speca. Nunavut, Greenland and the politics of resource revenues
Martin Mennecke. Indigenous Peoples, Whales and International Law - A Never-ending Story?
Malgosia Fitzmaurice. The Gordian Knot of Whaling: To Untangle or to Cut?
Dorothée Cambou. The impact of the EU ban on Seal products on Inuit people: an EU concern?
Nikolas Sellheim. Fur and Loathing – The European Union and the commercial Seal Hunt in the Arctic
Michael Laiho. Setting aside differences? The apparent conflicts which legitimise the EU’s energy and environmental strategies and their implications for the Arctic region.
Małgorzata Śmieszek. European Union and Climate Change in the Arctic
Nafisa Yeasmin. Implementation of EU Immigration Policy in the Euro-Arctic
Marta Sobrido. The Fisheries Protection Zone Around Svalbard and the European Union Members' Position
Andrea Scassola. An International Polar Code for Navigation: Consequences and Opportunities for the Arctic
Rosemary Rayfuse. The Polar Code: A test case for Arctic Oceans Governance
Laura Boone. Optimized port state jurisdiction for the Arctic
Jan Solski. Unilateral behavior in the Arctic region – the case of UNCLOS, Article 234
Kai Kokko. Environmental information – how to balance the role of different sources against each other in legal decision-making
Simon Marsden. Protecting Sub-Antarctica via the World Heritage Convention: Recent Development
Md Waliul Hasanat. Development of International Environmental Law in the Changing North
Ilona Mettiäinen. Knowledge-to-action question in strategic planning, case regional climate change strategy of Lapland, Finland
Alexandra Ivanova. Problems of the legal bases of environmental safety of the Arctic
Keynote: Charles Emmerson, Chatham House. "The Sediments of Time: History and Geopolitics in the Arctic"
Followed by short presentations by Timo Koivurova and Lassi Heininen of the relationship between geopolitics and international law.
Alyson JK Bailes and Kristmundur Þór Ólafsson. Northern Europe and the Arctic Agenda: roles of Nordic and other Sub-regional Organization
Michał Łuszczuk. Arctic regionalism – vision or reality?
Bjarni Már Magnússon. The natural prolongation concept after the judgment in the dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Sébastien Duyck. Managing fisheries in a changing climate
Rebecca M. Bratspies. Using Human Rights to Improve Arctic Governance
Shahnaj Begum. Challenges to the elderly population in the Arctic: A human rights perspective
Jessica Lefevre. The Alaskan Arctic: A Case Study in the Design of Process and Law Supporting Ecosystem-Based Multi-Use Ocean Management
Monica Tennberg. Political economy of the Barents Euro-Arctic Region: A biopolitical reading
Ørebech Peter. The Svalbard Treaty and limits to the Norwegian jurisdiction with regard to marine affairs, with a special emphasis on the fisheries and offshore activity
Nadezhda Filimonova. Assessing Soviet/Russian state and business interests in the marine border negotiations with Norway
Stefan Walter. The welfare consequences of the regulatory framework on biofuel in the North
Stefan Holitschke. The aspect of sustainability in the ´Comprehensive Plan for Electric Energy in the Faroe Islands´ of 2011
Natalia Loukacheva. Inuit and Marine Management Issues in Canada’s Eastern Arctic.
Margret Cela. Iceland: a small Arctic state facing big Arctic changes
Lu Fei. Oriental Dragon Winds to the Arctic, Not Just the Game of Power Struggle
Alena Ingvarsdóttir. Risk management implications of the exploration of the Arctic resources
Fujio Ohnishi. Japan and the Arctic
Agnieszka Wójcicka. International organizations in the Polar regions. Norden and Europe. Nordicization versus Europeanization processes
Piotr Graczyk. The role and potential of the Arctic Council in regulating and governing marine shipping in the Arctic
Kees Bastmeijer. Regulating Antarctic Tourism: A Gap Analysis
Adam Stępień. More holistic human rights language and rights-based approach in the Arctic governance? Possibilities, risks and divergent discourses beyond indigenous rights
Lassi Heininen and Charles Emmerson. 'How to communicate complex research findings to the public and policy-makers?'
Keynote: Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, University of Helsinki. Ethnicity, culture and power: The process of constructing the identity of the Sámi people in a Nordic and international context.
Antje Neumann. Enforcing indigenous people’s rights through voluntary guidelines in the Arctic: The example of Akwé: Kon Voluntary Guidelines
Tom Axworthy. The Role of Canadian Indigenous Leaders in Creating the Arctic Council
Øyvind Ravna and Nigel Bankes. Settling Indigenous land claims: A common indigenous title?
Maxim Zadorin. The Status of Unrecognized Indigenous Communities and “Rural Old-Timers” in the Russian Arctic: Socio-Legal Analysis
Anna Stammler-Gossmann. Between transnational, national and local: Concept of Indigeneity in Russia
Aitalina Ivanova. Legal aspects of industrial development on the territories of traditional land use in northeast Siberia
Anatoly Sleptsov. Ethnological expertise in Russia: experience, problems and prospects
Elena Knyazeva. The Protection of linguistic rights of indigenous peoples within the Russian Federation
Juha Karhu. Cultural rights of the Sami
Antti Aikio. The Sámi reindeer herding in turmoil: the conflict between International Law and the national legislation in Finland
Hiroshi Maruyama. Revitalization of Ainu Culture and Protection of their Right of Culture: Learning from Nordic Saami Experience
Terhi Vuojala-Magga. Sami traditional knowledge and cultural heritage - offering rights or putting into a cage
Professor Timo Koivurova and Professor Gudmundur Alfredsson. Announcement for the Polar Law Yearbook Volume 5 and an invitation to the next Polar Law Symposium