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Courses 2025 - 2026
LLH1730230
LL.M.-Thesis in Polar Law
SBR0178230
Comparative Law
LLH1730230
LL.M.-Thesis in Polar Law
MAH2760200
M.A.-Thesis in Polar Law
SLE0176240
European Legal Traditions
GNR1076210
Governance of Natural Resources at the Poles
IPR1074210
Industries in the Polar Regions
RÉT0276240
Human Rights Law
Research
2026
Restorative justice in Finnish constitutional law: reconciling Sámi rights and ecology.
Journal article
2025
Pax Boreo-Romana: A Pedagogical Exploration of Roman Law in Icelandic Classrooms.
Working paper
2025
The Significance of Sámi Rights Law, Justice, and Sustainability for the Indigenous Sámi in the Nordic Countries, edited by Dorothée Cambou, Øyvind Ravna.
Journal article
2025
Environmental Restorative Justice and the Green Transition:Examining Intergenerational Equity for Sámi Rights under the Norwegian Constitution.
Journal article
2025
Leena Heinämäki and Thora Martina Herrmann (eds.) Experiencing and Protecting Sacred Natural Sites of Sámi and other Indigenous Peoples. The Sacred Arctic (Cham: Springer, 2017).
Review
2025
Retaliatory Justice and Roman Legal Order: A Comparative Study of Icelandic and Mediterranean Traditions.
Working paper
2024
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Justice A Critical Analysis of International Human Rights Law and Governance, written by Giada Giacomini.
Journal article
2024
Rethinking Insularity in the Canadian Constitutional System.
Journal article
2023
In dubio pro natura: Environmental Constitutionalism and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic.
Journal article
2023
Marjo Lindroth and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen, The Colonial Politics of Hope: Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations (London: Routledge, 2022).
Journal article
2022
Karen N. Scott and David L. VanderZwaag (eds.) Research Handbook on Polar Law (Cheltenham/Northampton: E. Elgar, 2020).
Journal article
2022
Participation, Sharing, and Cooperation: The rights of indigenous peoples over natural resources in the Arctic.
Journal article
Gender and Environment chapter in Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality in the Arctic.
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Principles for determining the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean: Arctic states’ submission and protecting issues.
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The legal position of Inuit in the exploitation of natural resources in Greenland.
Dissertation
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