The Role of the Arctic Council from an International Law Perspective: Past, Present and Future
The Yearbook of Polar Law, Vol 6, No 1, 2015, pp. 349-374.
The Yearbook of Polar Law, Vol 6, No 1, 2015, pp. 349-374.
This article describes the structure of the Arctic Council and its status under international law, analyzes important developments relating to this issue in the period before the 2009 Ministerial Meeting held in Tromsø, Norway; examines the processes in which two legally binding instruments were negotiated and eventually adopted as well as elements common to these agreements; and discusses Arctic Council processes relevant to the development of the international law other than treaty negotiations under its auspices.