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DurhamARCTIC PhD Student, Durham Law School, Durham University, United Kingdom 

Academic background

• MA in Polar Law, University of Akureyri, Iceland
• Bachelor’s degree, University of Mons, Belgium
• Exchange semesters in Copenhagen (2014-2015) and Nuuk (2016)
  
   

PhD thesis: Implementing Indigenous rights through environmental law processes and mechanisms in the Arctic

Professional experience

• Teaching Assistant in International Law, Durham Law School, Durham University (since 2020)
• Research Associate (since 2019) and Leadership group member (since 2021), The Arctic Institute, Washington DC  
• Research Fellow, Polar Cooperation Research Centre, Kobe University, Japan (2018-2019)
  
   

Major publications

• Chuffart, Romain, Andreas Raspotnik, and Adam Stępień. "Our common arctic? A more sustainable EU-arctic nexus in light of the European green deal." The Polar Journal (2021): 1-19.

• Shibata, Akiho, and Romain Chuffart. "Sustainability as an integrative principle: The role of international law in Arctic resource development." Polar Record 56 (2020).

• Chuffart, Romain, Sakiko Hataya, Osamu Inagaki, and Linday Arthur, “Assessing Japan’s Arctic Engagement during the ArCS Project (2015–2020).” The Yearbook of Polar Law 12 (2020): 328-348.