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AUCEL Energy Seminar Series 2021-2022
Speaker
Rachael Lorna Johnstone is professor of law at the University of Akureyri and at Ilisimatusarfik (the University of Greenland).
Professor Johnstone specialises in Polar law: the governance of the Arctic and the Antarctic under international and domestic law. She has published widely on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, international human rights law, governance of extractive industries in the Arctic, international environmental law, state responsibility and due diligence, and Arctic strategies. Her books include Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic (Routledge 2020) with Anne Merrild Hansen, Arctic Governance in a Changing World (Rowman and Littlefield 2019) with Mary Durfee, and Offshore Oil and Gas Development in the Arctic under International Law: Risk and Responsibility (Brill 2015).
Professor Johnstone is an active member of the International Law Association and two thematic networks of the University of the Arctic: on Arctic Law and on Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility. She is a member of the board of the Icelandic Human Rights Centre. She is also a member of the Arctic Circle Mission Council on Greenland in the Arctic and serves on the advisory board of the Polar Research and Policy Initiative. She is the deputy member for Iceland on the Social and Human Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee.
Professor Johnstone holds a doctorate in juridical science (S.J.D.) from the University of Toronto (2004), an M.A. in Polar Law from the University of Akureyri (2014), an LL.M. (magna cum laude) in Legal Theory from the European Academy of Legal Theory (2000) and an LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Glasgow (1999).
Abstract
This intervention examines the colonisation of the Polar regions by States and the legal arguments created and modified to justify State claims to territory, including over territories in the Arctic over which Indigenous Peoples have much stronger and longer evidence of occupation. It then turns to the decolonisation process of the second half of the 20th century to explain the origins of Indigenous rights in international law and argues that they are a poor substitute for the self-determination offered to certain colonised Peoples left behind by the decolonisation process according to the ‘salt-water’ thesis.
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- Professor Rachael Lorna Johnstone
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- Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law
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