Faculty of Law

Rachael Lorna Johnstone

Professor
460 8666 She

Location

Office hours

Email rlj@unak.is for appointment.

Specialisation

Polar Law International Law Human Rights Rights of Indigenous Peoples Arctic Studies

General information

Courses

HRT1076230
Law of the Sea
ÞJR0178230
Public International Law
HRT1074210
Law of the Sea I
LD-LAUN030
Nefndarstörf
GNR1076210
Governance of Natural Resources at the Poles
FBR1078210
The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic
PLP1076210
Arctic Law and Policy
ÞJR0178230
Public International Law

Career

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

Research

2025
Colonization and colonialism
2024
Decolonising Arctic Archives: a Research Agenda
2023
Megaprojects on ice: lessons from the Kárahnjúkar hydropower project for a Just Transition
2023
The Routledge Handbook of Polar Law
2023
Free Association and the United Nations
2023
Hydrocarbon activities on indigenous land: Substantive and procedural rights
2023
Colonisation at the Poles, Incomplete Decolonisation and the Creation of Indigenous Peoples
2023
Colonizzazione, decolonizzazione incompleta e la creazione dei popoli indigeni. I fondamenti dei loro diritti “speciali” in Arctic
2023
Polar Law after the Invasion of Ukraine
2023
Polar Law as a Burgeoning Discipline
2023
Polar Legal System
2022
In Finland, Sámi Rights take Central Stage in National Politics
2022
Case Comment: Supreme Court Rules Scottish Parliament Can’t Hold INDYREF2 Unilaterally
2022
Why this War is Different
2022
Colonisation at the Poles: A Story of Ineffective Occupation
2022
Colonizzazione, decolonizzazione incompleta e la creazione dei popoli indigeni. I fondamenti dei loro diritti ‘speciali’ (link)
2022
Global Polar Law?
2022
Perspectives on Colonialism in Greenland
2022
The Greenland Reconciliation Commission: one more step towards independence?
2021
Environmental protection in the Antarctic and the Arctic: the role of international law
2021
Social konsekvensvurdering i en arktisk kontekst
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
Listening to Arctic Voice in Extractive Industries
2020
The impact of international law on natural resource governance in Greenland
2020
In Memoriam – Ágúst Þór Árnason, 26 May 1954–11 April 2019
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
BRIEFING NOTE#: 18th JUNE 2018: FIELDWORK IN MANIITSOQ
2018
Iceland’s Accession to the Antarctic Treaty
2018
Little Fish, Big Pond: Icelandic Interests and Influence in Arctic Governance
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
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
Little Italy: Seeking a Niche in International Arctic Relations
2016
The principle of 'full reparation' for environmental damage and very small states
2014
Invoking Responsibility for Environmental Injury in the Arctic Ocean
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