Climate change is affecting indigenous peoples and their rights. However, indigenous peoples themselves are at the forefront of climate action, having protected nature for millennia, and now becoming increasingly aware of the active role they can play in the formulating and implementing processes of the international legal climate-change agenda.2 <p> <p>This chapter explores to what extent existing ...

This blog post summarizes the main findings of the Conference. The post is structured following the order of the three sessions of the Conference. Finally, the post offers overall concluding remarks

<p>The regulation of foreign navigation in the Northern Sea Route (NSR) has been dominated by the rules of international law applicable to merchant ships only. Neither the domestic set of rules of navigation on the NSR, based on Article 234 of UNCLOS nor the Polar Code applies to State-owned vessels. While the application of Article 234 has so far let Russia evade discussion on the navigational ...

"[...] I likhet med Sametinget har også Domstolkommisjonen satt fokus på samenes situasjon i domstolene (i NOU 2019: 17 og NOU 2020: 11) og etterlyst innsikt og kunnskap hos dommere og den enkelte domstol på samerettens område. Det gjenstår å se hvordan domstolene – og særlig vår høyeste rett – vil besvare bestillingene fra Sametinget og Domstolkommisjonen."

The legislation of Russia and Canada includes a veiled requirement to obtain prior authorization from the coastal State for merchant ships to navigate through large areas in the Arctic. The coastal State concept of prior authorization presupposes that a coastal State may legally give or withhold its consent to the passage of a vessel. In areas where flag States enjoy navigational rights or freedoms, ...

Norway has a population of 5.3 million people, of whom 1.1 million are children, i.e., under the age of 18. Almost half of marriages in the country end in divorce, the others end by the death of one of the partners. In 2018, the number of new mar-riages was 20,949, and there were 10,630 separations and 9,545 divorces. The number of minor children experiencing their par-ents’ divorce was 8,900. To ...

Norway has stood on the doorsteps of the European Union (then the European Communities (EC)) for more than four decades. In 1960, Norway became one of the seven original members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), a trade-blocalternative to the European Economic Community (EEC). The Norwegian people voted against EC-membership in 1972 and 1994. In the late 1980's, a plan to create a single ...

<p>Norwegian civil procedure scores well on efficiency as measured in average time for case processing and for achieving high trust among the public. General litigious civil and commercial cases are on average processed in approximately six months and small claims civil cases in four months. On average, a case has passed through both the District Court and the Court of Appeal within 13 months. The ...

I 1993 fremla Samerettsutvalgets rettsgruppe sin ut¬redning om retten til land og vann i Finnmark. I den ble det konkludert med at staten eide all usolgt jord i Finnmark, og videre at det hadde vært en sammenhengende myndighetsoppfatning om det tilbake fra 1693. Dette har fått stor betydning for eiendomsretten til den tidligere umatrikulerte grunnen i fylket, som aldri har vært prøvd av domstolene. ...

Barnevernloven har ingen bestemmelse som særskilt gir hjemmel for å stanse eller redusere samvær i tilfeller hvor gjennomføring av samvær kommer i en akutt og skadelig motstrid til barnets interesser. Under anerkjennelse av at det i slike tilfeller kan foreligge en folkerettslig plikt til å komme barnet til unnsetning, er det i juridisk litteratur antydet at nasjonalt rettsgrunnlag for akutte vedtak ...