,Faculty of Law

Rachael Lorna Johnstone

Professor
460 8666

Location

  • E228
  • Sólborg

Office hours

Email rlj@unak.is for appointment.

Specialisation

Polar Law International Law Human Rights Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Research portal - Rachael Lorna Johnstone 

General information

Courses

MSE0176170
The European Convention on Human Rights
RÉT0276100
Human Rights Law
ÞJR0178110
Public International Law
PLE1730210
Polar Law exchange course
ÞKÞ0176160
Nation, race and nationalism
LGR0172200
Legal Research
LLH1730210
LL.M.-Thesis in Polar Law
MAH1730150
M.A.-Thesis in Polar Law I
MAH2760200
M.A.-Thesis in Polar Law
ÞJR0178230
Public International Law
SMN1074210
Societies, Cultures and Human Development in the Arctic
MAC0176210
Model Arctic Council
MSE0176170
The European Convention on Human Rights
FBR1078210
The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic
PLP1076210
Arctic Law and Policy

Career

2016
Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland, Professor of Law
2003
University of Akureyri, Professor of Law

Research

2020
From the Indian Ocean to the Arctic: What the Chagos Archipelago Advisory Opinion Tells Us about Greenland
2020
Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic
2020
The impact of international law on natural resource governance in Greenland
2020
Non-living resources and the Poles
2019
Hydrocarbon Development in the Arctic: Rights and Responsibilities
2019
BRIEFING NOTE #20: FIELDWORK IN ITTOQQORTOORMIIT
2019
Arctic Governance in a Changing World
2019
In the Shadow of the Mountain: Assessing early impacts on community development from two mining prospects in South Greenland
2018
Why Iceland is set to resume whaling despite international opposition
2018
北極評議会を通じた環境ガバナンス
2018
Little Fish, Big Pond: Icelandic Interests and Influence in Arctic Governance
2018
Iceland’s Accession to the Antarctic Treaty
2018
BRIEFING NOTE#: 18th JUNE 2018: FIELDWORK IN MANIITSOQ
2017
BRIEFING NOTE# 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCTIC OIL AND GAS RESEARCH CENTRE
2017
BRIEFING NOTE# 5: FIELDWORK IN SOUTH GREENLAND
2017
BRIEFING NOTE# 6: FIELDWORK IN EAST GREENLAND
2017
BRIEFING NOTE# 8: FIVE PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVED PRACTICE ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION RELATED TO EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN GREENLAND
2017
Improving public participation in Greenland extractive industries
2017
Indigenous rights in the marine Arctic
2017
Respectful neighbourliness: the United Kingdom’s Arctic approach
2016
Introduction to the Arctic Oil and Gas Research Centre
2016
8 The principle of ‘full reparation’for environmental damage and very small states
2016
Introduction to the Arctic Oil and Gas Research Centre
2016
Little Italy: Seeking a Niche in International Arctic Relations
2014
Invoking Responsibility for Environmental Injury in the Arctic Ocean
2013
Scotland as an Independent Small State: Where would it seek shelter?
2013
Evaluating Espoo: What Protection does the Espoo Convention Offer the Arctic Marine Environment?
2013
Comment on Rights and Value: The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Addresses the Environment
2013
Human rights in crisis: securing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in economic downturns
2013
Practising what they Preach: Did the IMF and Iceland Exercise Good Governance in their Relations 2008-2011?
2013
Scotland as an Independent Small State: Where would it seek shelter?
2012
An Arctic Strategy for Scotland
2011
Rights and Value: Construing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Civil Commons
2011
Defending Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Iceland’s Financial Crisis
2011
Ha ancora una rilevanza la Convenzione sull'eliminazione di ogni forma di discriminazione nei confronti delle donne? Per una sua (ri) considerazione nel tempo presente
2011
Mannréttindi ́ı þrengingum: Efnahagsleg og félagsleg réttindi ́ı kreppunni (Akureyri
2010
Mannréttindi ́ı þrengingum
2010
When private and public meet: Three CEDAW Committee views on intra-familial violence
2009
Tax is a Feminist Issue
2009
Unlikely Bedfellows: feminist theory and the war on terror
2009
Who is the State? Visions of State Responsibility in Three United Nations Institutions
2008
International Martial Law: The Security Council’s “Legislative” Response to Terrorism
2008
State responsibility: a concerto for court, council and committee
2007
Cynical savings or reasonable reform? Reflections on a single unified UN human rights treaty body
2007
Genocide in Bosnia: Attributing Responsibility
2006
Feminist influences on the United Nations human rights treaty bodies
2003
Human rights working for women.
Introduction