The third Polar Law Symposium ‘Human Rights and Good Governance’ took place in September 2010 where leading experts in the field of Polar Law and Arctic Governance met at the University of Akureyri, where it was hosted. The symposium covered a wide variety of topics relating to the Arctic and Antarctic. Topics included environmental law, jurisdictional and other issues relating to territorial claims and border disputes (both land and sea) along with Human Rights and the Arctic.
Statement by HE Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of the Republic of Iceland
Stefán B. Sigurdsson, Rector of the University of Akureyri
Awarding an Honorary Doctoral Degree to Professor Nigel Bankes
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Minister of Education, Iceland. ‘Cooperation Across Borders’
Dr. Natalia Loukacheva, University of Akureyri, and Research Associate, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. ‘Legal Education in the North - Textbooks and Institutions’
Ágúst Thór Árnason, University of Akureyri. ‘Teaching Human Rights and Democracy in Small Societies’
Bostjan Zupancic, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights. ‘The Causal Link: Environmental Damage and Its Consequences upon the Right to Health’
Dr. Rachael Lorna Johnstone, Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, University of Akureyri. ‘Human Rights during Economic Crisis’
Catherine Dupré, Associate Professor at the University of Exeter. ‘Human Dignity’
Professor Alyson Bailes, University of Iceland. ‘Human Rights as They Relate to International and Regional Security’
Dr. Kamrul Hossain, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. ‘Human Rights as They Relate to Arctic Environment and Sustainable Development’
Antje Neumann, Geopolitics in the High North, Research Division - EU External Relations, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin. ‘Indigenous Peoples' Rights in an Environmental Context: Area Protection and Management’
Leena Heinämäki, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. ‘The Right to Be Part of Nature: Arctic Indigenous Peoples and the Environment’
Adam Stepien, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. ‘Indigenous Peoples in Nordic Development Cooperation. How can the Arctic shape Policies for the South?’
Jean-Francois Arteau, Legal Counsel and Executive Assistant to Pita Aatami, President of Makivik, and Donat Savoie, Senior Advisor, Inuit, Arctic, Circumpolar Affairs. ‘Successes, Challenges, Innovation - The Road to the Creation of an Autonomous Public Government in Nunavik’
Tanja Joona, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. ‘The [Good] Governance of Northern Lands – Developing Good Practices’
Professor Timo Koivurova, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. ‘Indigenous Peoples in the International Governance Architecture of the Arctic’
Professor Nigel Bankes, Law Faculty, University of Calgary. ‘The Right to Property and Indigenous People’
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. ‘Land and Resources Rights in Practice’
Øyvind Ravna, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Tromsö, and Editor-in-Chief of the Arctic Review on Law and Politics. ‘Land and Resources Rights (with focus on the Finnmark Land Act in relation to international law)’
Professor Kees Bastmeijer, University of Tilburg. ‘Common Heritage of Mankind and the Rights of Future Generations’
Sebastien Duyck, NIEM researcher, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland. ‘Lessons from the Antarctic for Governance in the North’
Jónas Allansson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iceland. ‘The Polar Organizations’
Lee Swepston, formerly with the International Labour Office, Geneva. ‘Existing International Standards’
Jakob Th. Möller, formerly with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva. ‘Case Law of the UN Human Rights Committee’
Law Professor Gudmundur Alfredsson, Universities of Akureyri and Strasbourg. ‘Consistency in Performance’