Wednesday, December 1, 2010

New Volume: Yearbook of Polar Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of Polar Law (Vol. 2, 2010) is out. Contents include:
  • Gudmundur Alfredsson & Timo Koivurova, Introduction
  • Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, The North: A New Academic Frontier - An Opening Address by the President of Iceland at the Second Akureyri Polar Law Symposium, University of Akureyri 10 September 2009
  • R. Douglas Brubaker, The Arctic – Navigational Issues under International Law of the Sea
  • Timo Koivurova, Governing Arctic Shipping: Finding a Role for the Arctic Council
  • Kamrul Hossain, International Governance in the Arctic: The Law of the Sea Convention with Special Focus on Offshore Oil and Gas
  • Ron Macnab, Nationalizing the Arctic Maritime Commons: UNCLOS Article 76 and the Polar Sea
  • Louis W. Pauly, The Increasing Complexity of Global and Regional Governance: New Context for Polar Law
  • Alyson JK Bailes, Potential Roles of NATO and the EU in High Northern Security
  • Mark Nuttall, Resource Frontier or Extractive Periphery?: The Political Ecology of Oil and Gas in the North
  • Ron Macnab, The Southern and Arctic Oceans: Polar Opposites in Many Respects
  • Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Indigenous Whaling, Protection of the Environment, Intergenerational Rights and Environmental Ethics
  • Md. Waliul Hasanat, Cooperation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region in the Light of International Law