This Chapter is devoted to issues relating to the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean and its negotiation that are of key importance to international fisheries law. It provides an overview of the Arctic Five and Five-plus-Five processes that culminated in the Agreement, as well as the Agreement’s institutional set-up and setting. These negotiation processes ...

This article presents the editors' introduction to the ten-year anniversary issue of Arctic Review on Law and Politics, with a history of the journal and an overview of the issue's contents.2020 represents a milestone for Arctic Review on Law and Politics as it is 10 years since the first, slender issue of the journal was launched at the university bookstore in Tromsø, Norway, on 14 April 2010. ...

Children`s right to respect for family life is widely recognised in Norwegian law. The specific provision on children’s human rights in the Norwegian Constitution, section 104, mentions family. In addition, section 102 states that everyone, including children, have a right to respect for private and family life. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc) and the European Convention on Human ...

This chapter consists of a comparative analyses of children’s constitutional rights in the Nordic countries. First, we analyse children’s constitutional rights in general in the Nordic countries to assess if and how a Constitution is in line with the child’s rights approach of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (crc). We build on a model developed by Conor O’Mahony that measures the protection ...

This chapter examines whether including children’s participatory rights in the Norwegian Constitution has had any legal or practical impact. It uses Susan White’s typology of participation rights as a tool for examining whether children’s participation is nominal, instrumental, representative or transformative. The preparatory works of the Norwegian Constitution are ambiguous. On the one hand, the ...

The People’s Republic of China (‘China’) has adopted legislation threatening to invade the Republic of China (‘Taiwan’) if the latter declares independence. Threats of force are prohibited by the UN Charter Article 2(4) and equivalent customary international law. This article proceeds along two apparently contradictory strands. On the one hand, the prohibition probably does not apply to non-State ...

The unforeseen Covid-19 pandemic has propelled, and continues to propel, unprecedented transformations to civil proceedings and the landscape in which they operate. Courts have proven to be creative and innovative in their responses to the pandemic, and in their ability to implement digitisation of paperwork and remote hearings. This book contains a comparative study of how courts in 23 countries ...

Climate change's adverse environmental and societal consequences present a significant challenge for global governance frameworks, including for the law of the sea. Considering the inevitability of these impacts, adaptation of human and ecological systems is increasingly important, contributing to a developing climate change adaptation regime under international climate change law. The law of the ...

Environmental education research needs to take into account the relational dimension of the ecological challenges of our time. It requires the development of methodological techniques that prioritize community concerns, and generally foster positive relational dynamics of the research and study group. This leads to the construction of a research and educational approach around the collective and ...

A study of coastal state intervention in salvage operations, the liability and compensation of salvors, places of refuge in relation to salvors, and the propsal for a new environmental salvage award.