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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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Leena's research interests are Indigenous peoples’ rights, including Sámi people’s rights in Finland. International human rights and environmental law as it applies to indigenous peoples. Hansen 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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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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.