In the legal conceptualization of space, cartography has always been a fundamental tool narrating, representing, generating, or even (re)claiming territory. In this article, we examine the relationship between cartography and international law by looking at different cartographic representations of the area covering the disputed “Northwest Passage” (NWP). In an attempt to discuss how mapping may ...

The chapter departs from that domestic legislators have demonstrated that they are either incapable of or unwilling to cater for vibrant, viable and sustainable Sámi communities. Indeed, they may counteract this objective. International law on Indigenous rights, on the other hand, is a normative framework promising to be conducive to sustainable Sámi societies. Thus, allowing the international ...

Sabotasje mot undersjøisk infrastruktur er stadig vanligere, noe hendelser de siste årene fra Svalbard til Shetlandsøyene, fra den franske middelhavskysten til Taiwanstredet illustrerer, skriver forskeren i havrett.

Published in 1950, Carl Schmitt’s Nomos of the Earth has been one of the most influential contributions in legal theory, illustrating inter alia the territorial conceptualization of the Eurocentric global legal order. While the Earth’s nomos has been largely hinged on the constructed ontology of a land-sea dichotomy and the appropriation and division of space through the establishment of sovereignty ...

The law of the sea is facing fundamental challenges, including material challenges, epistemic challenges, and challenges relating to ocean justice and geopolitical dynamics. To address these challenges, NCLOS has been engaged with several projects, one of which focusses on problematizing the logic of sovereignty and investigating how sovereignty could be redefined, adapted, and rethought to respond ...

Barn har rett til å få sitt beste lagt til grunn som et grunnleggende hensyn i alle saker som berører dem selv. I denne boken diskuteres den iboende spenningen i utlendingsloven § 1, som pålegger norske utlendingsmyndigheter å ivareta både innvandringspolitiske hensyn og internasjonale menneskerettslige forpliktelser. Politiske hensyn og spenningen mellom barnets og statens interesser utgjør en ...

This collection celebrates the contributions of Professor David Freestone to our understanding of international environmental law, particularly law of the sea and climate law. In doing so, it seeks to reflect his contributions by making its own mark on how we understand these fields of academic inquiry, as well as the realpolitik of international law-making on some of the most pressing and complex ...

Boken gir kunnskap om kvotesystemet på et bredere grunnlag enn ved en fremstilling av gjeldende fiskerilover og forskrifter. Dette gjelder fremveksten av sentrale elementer og ordninger, opptakten til utformingen av det nye kvotesystemet, rettsspørsmål om lukking av fiskerier, legitimitetsspørsmål, og Stortingets kontroll med fiskerimyndighetenes forskrifter.

Norwegian courts have been digitised at an unprecedented pace during the Covid-19 pandemic. Because case management hearings were already conducted remotely and expert witnesses were often examined remotely, the transition to fully remote hearings has been fairly smooth in Norway, as will be explained in Section 2. However, the implementation of new technology has entailed some difficulties, in ...

While legal progress on indigenous land claims has recently been fostered around the globe, sea claims still lag behind. Since the beginning of colonization, the doctrine of mare nullius declared seas vacant of indigenous tenure or authority and led to the establishment of sovereign State jurisdiction over offshore areas, and more recently to the characterization of the living resources in these ...