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By training, Kamrul is a researcher in the field of international law. He has been working on a diverse range of Arctic issues for the last fifteen years. The main focus of his research currently lies in international environmental law that applies to the Arctic and human rights law, particularly concerning the rights of the indigenous peoples, with a focus on the Arctic. Over the years, Kamrul has extensively published in all areas of Arctic governance (climate change; marine environment, maritime delimitation and law of the sea; human activities in the Arctic such as shipping and resource extractions, onshore and offshore oil and gas developments; marine biodiversity conservation; and human rights and human security dimensions) highlighting legal, institutional and policy perspectives.  

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Within the legal studies my field of specialisation is law of property, environmental law and legal history. Regionally my research interests are focused on land use rights in the Finnish and Swedish Lapland. Main research interest is aimed to local peoples various land use rights, especially in the area owned by Finnish and Swedish States.

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Dele had his Masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Helsinki. His Masters degree was from the department of Food Chemistry & Technology while the doctoral degree in Food Sciences was from the department of Food and Environmental Sciences. He has gained extensive research and industrial experience in the last three decades. He also obtained the Post Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Greenwich, London. Dele’s research interest is in food bio-processing, preservation and other crosscutting issues related to food security.

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Karolina works as a researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law and is also a member of the Anthropology Research Team at the Arctic Centre. She holds a master degree in law from the University of Wroclaw. In her doctoral research, Karolina is looking at the right to the cultural heritage of the Russian ethnic minorities. She is combining an analysis of international law with an anthropological approach involving fieldwork research.

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Research interests:
Indigenous peoples’ rights, including Sámi people’s rights in Finland. International human rights and environmental law as it applies to indigenous peoples. Heinämäki has a special interest in the Arctic legal co-operation, and she acts as a vice-leader of the University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law.

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Punam Noor’s research focuses on accommodating indigenous peoples' traditional knowledge in international climate change law with special reference to the European High Arctic, where she combines conceptual frameworks with indigenous traditional knowledge for the promotion of indigenous peoples' resilience against climate change. She is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lapland. She specialised in Environmental and Climate Change Law and she did European Union Law as her minor studies. She has completed Postgraduate Diploma in Law from Northumbria University in the UK.

Sanna’s research focuses on global environmental politics, international norms of responsibility, and international politics in the Arctic region. Sanna is the author of China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change (Routledge 2019) and a co-editor of Chinese Policy and Presence in the Arctic (Brill Publishing 2020, with Timo Koivurova). She is also a Senior Fellow at The Arctic Institute –Center for Circumpolar Security Studies in Washington D.C. Sanna received a PhD in International Relations from University of Tampere, Finland, in 2016.

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Marlene’s research concentrates on international environmental law, climate change law and governance and human rights. Marlene’s approach to research is interdisciplinary and transnational in essence, with an emphasis on socio-ecological justice, climate litigation, corporate responsibility and global ‘green’ transformation issues. Her current research addresses the legal and political aspects related to new conceptualisations and governance practices for a ‘planetary society’, taking as an empirical case the Arctic region. Marlene holds a PhD from the University of Liverpool. Her doctoral thesis examines conceptual and technical aspects of the relationship between human rights and climate change. Marlene works for the project A Planetary Approach to Global Arctic politics.

Karoliina Hurri is working as a researcher in the project “Climate responsibility as a normative cornerstone of multilateral cooperation?” funded by the Kone Foundation. Her research focuses on questions related to climate leadership and climate justice. Karoliina Hurri is finalizing her World Politics doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. The title of her dissertation is “The Construction of China’s climate leadership in the global climate governance”. She holds a Master’s degree in Development Geography. In addition, Karoliina Hurri is a visiting researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute.

Vesa works for the project “A Planetary Approach to Global Arctic Politics”. In his research, Vesa focuses on the relation between the global and the Arctic from a post-anthropocentric perspective by examining the social and material aspects of policy implementation practices, their geographies, and how they produce planetary (in)justice. Vesa holds a PhD in geography, which he received in 2020 at the University of Oulu. In his doctoral thesis, entitled “Political geographies of the ‘changing’ Arctic: perspectives on the interface between politics and the region as a process”, Vesa focused on the construction of geographical knowledge on the Arctic region and its change, and how this knowledge becomes incorporated into Arctic politics.

Marco’s research focuses on China´s engagement in the Arctic region with a specific look at the Chinese epistemic community´s debate related to Arctic issues. His research comprehends analysis of Chinese language-based literature. He holds a Master´s degree in Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Rome La Sapienza, an Mres in East Asian Studies from the University of Leeds (UK) and a Master in Sustainable Development, Geopolitics of Resources and Arctic Studies from the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI). He is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Social Science of the University of Lapland and a research assistant in the Arctic Studies course of the LLM in Sustainable Development at the Faculty of Law of the University of Milan.

Yue Wang works as a Visiting Researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM), the Arctic Centre. He is also a Doctoral Researcher in International Relations at Tampere University in Finland. Yue graduated cum laude with a MA degree in International Relations from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and received a BA degree with honours in History (Sinology track) from China. His research lies in the overall theme of international politics and governance in the Arctic, especially China's Polar Silk Road and the unintended effects of international cooperation in the Arctic.

Dawid is a legal philosopher and works on law and philosophy in the Arctic. He conducts cross-disciplinary research (law, philosophy, anthropology, language, politics, economy, etc.). He leads the sub-group of philosophy of law in the Arctic Law Thematic Network at UArctic. He is especially interested in the theory of legal pluralism and indigenous customary laws/rights in the Arctic. He has co-edited e.g. “Philosophies of Polar Law” (Routledge 2020; paperback in 2023). He is Professor at State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek (Poland), Visiting Professor at Carleton University, Lecturer at the University of Guyana and Visiting Researcher in the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) School of Theology. He did PhD in legal theory in Poland (2009) and postdoctoral research at UEF.

Alessandra is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lapland, where she is investigating the development of a partnership between the Sámi People and the European Union and its effects on the European Environmental Law and Policy. The research project received four-year funding from the Kone Foundation (Koneen Säätiö). Her main fields of interest are the role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in Environmental Law, the Green Transition and the Rights of Nature. She is an Associate Fellow of the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education.

Sébastien researches primarily on issues related to environmental (human) rights. His main field of expertise relates to the protection and respect of human rights in the context of climate change and climate policies and the role played by various international institutions. Sébastien’s research also relates to public participation in international environmental governance.

Sara Fusco is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Law and Indigenous Rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lapland. Her research focuses on the concept of Environmental Justice in the Arctic Constitutions from the Indigenous Rights perspective. She currently lectures in Comparative Law and Human Rights at the Faculty Law of the University of Akureyri, where she graduated in Polar Law in 2019. She holds an MA in Comparative Law from the University of Florence.

Pirjo is a lawyer by training and she holds a doctoral degree in international law awarded from the University of Lapland. She has been working on diverse range of the law of the sea issues for a long time and currently the focus of her research lies in the law of the sea in the Arctic Ocean, in particular freedom of navigation, and international environmental law.

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Anna Petrétei is working as a visiting researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, and is a PhD student at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Law. She graduated as a lawyer at the University of Pécs, Hungary. She is carrying out research on the rights of indigenous peoples, and has been involved in several research projects focusing on indigenous peoples. She has studied mining legislation from the viewpoint of the Sami people and examined different aspects of societal and indigenous security. She has also contributed to other research projects focusing on the relationship between extractive industrial development and the rights of indigenous peoples.