The newest volume brings together a diverse collection of short academic articles, a commentary, a workshop report, and a note from the editor. The contributions provide valuable insights for academics, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in Arctic matters.

The volume covered a range of topics, including the Arctic’s position in an ever-changing global order scenario, science diplomacy in the Arctic’s legal developments, potential expansion of transnational organized crimes responding to the Arctic’s new reality, politics and public opinion surrounding the deep seabed mining in Norway, cross-border cooperation in the context of Nordic forest policies, human rights impacts resulting from regulatory challenges concerning the aboriginal subsistence whaling, legal challenges and unified civil liability regime for Arctic oil exploration in the fractured geopolitical climate, ownership of Indigenous archives in the Sápmi, legal challenges concerning Arctic water justice, a report highlighting key workshop messages reviewing Japan’s Arctic Policy 2015–25, etc.

The CDAL is an open-access annual publication of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law, produced in collaboration with the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education.

The articles published in the volume are not strictly peer-reviewed but are considered scientific.

The volume can be downloaded from the following link: Current Developments in Arctic Law. Vol. 12 (2024)


More information:

Kamrul Hossain, Research professor
Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Kamrul.hossain(at)ulapland.fi
+35840 484 4281