7th Polar Law Symposium, to be held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, October 28-31, 2014
Hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) at the University of Tasmania, in collaboration with the Polar Law Institute in Akureyri, the University of Akureyri in Iceland, the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law of the Arctic Centre of the University of Akureyri , and the UArctic’s University of Akureyri ; academics, students and practitioners from around the world are welcome to attend and participate in the 3-day event.
Held for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere, sessions topics for the 7th Polar Law Symposium include:
- Asian interests in polar affairs
- Polar economies and industry
- Polar marine resources
- Native peoples and human rights
- The Antarctic Treaty system
- Legal and political issues in the polar and marine environments
- International law
The keynote presenter is Professor Akiho Shibata, Kobe University, Japan. Professor Shibata’s principal research interests are international law-making processes, international environmental law and the Antarctic Treaty System. He served as a Legal Consultant of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2011 and participated in several environmental treaty negotiations as a member of the Japanese delegation.
The proceedings will be published as the Yearbook of Polar Law (Nijhoff).
REGISTRATIONS: To register please visit the symposium web-pages