Tromsø, 23 and 24 November 2022

Venue: Auditorium 3, UiT Campus

 

Wednesday 23 November

08.30-09.00        Registration and Coffee

09:00-09:10        Welcome and opening – Ingvild Ulrikke Jakobsen (Professor and Director of the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS), UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

09.10-09.40       Keynote speaker:  Alexander Proelss (Professor, Hamburg University), "Reflections on Ocean Space"

09:40-11.10        Panel 1. Ocean space and climate change Live stream here!

Moderator:        Ellen Hey (Professor Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam and NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

                               Speakers:

  1. Mitchell Lennan (Affiliate Researcher, Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, Strathclyde Law School, the University of Strathclyde): “COP27 –What News for the Ocean?” (also on behalf of Elisa Morgera, Professor of Global Environmental Law, Strathclyde Law School and Director of the UKRI GCRF One Ocean Hub) 
  2. Jason Halog (Ph.D. Candidate, German Aerospace Centre) and Paul Margat (Ph.D Candidate, German Aerospace Centre): “Land Reclamation Activities under the Law of the Sea Convention in the Light of Sea Level Rise”
  3. Selman Aksünger (Ph.D. candidate in the International and European Law, Department at Maastricht University): “Permanent sovereignty over natural resources: A normative framework for changing maritime zones in the context of Sea-level rise”
  4. Rozemarijn Roland Holst (Assistant Professor, Durham Law School, Durham University): “Marine Environmental Restoration: Challenges, Opportunities and Transformative Potential at the Land-Sea Interface”

Rapporteur:       Mana Tugend (Ph.D. Candidate, NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

11.10-11.30        Coffee Break

11:30-13:00        Panel 2. Transcending borders: Ecosystem-based [and integrated] ocean governance Live stream here!

Moderator:        Jan Solski (Senior researcher, NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

                               Speakers:

  1. Gunnar Sander (Senior Research Scientist, Norwegian Institute for Water Research): “European approaches can clarify key characteristics of Ecosystem-based ocean management”
  2. Konstantinos Deligiannis-Viros (Ph.D. Candidate, NCLOS, UiT The Arctic University of Norway): “Implementing the Ecosystem Approach in Shipping: the case of the Arctic Ocean”
  3. Alexandros X.M. Ntovas (Associate professor and Director of the Institute of Maritime Law,University of Southampton Law School): “What is in the name of … Commons? On the legal language and ecological semantics of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory species: Moving the discourse toward a ‘transjurisdictional’ conception”
  4. Froukje Platjouw (Researcher Scientist, Norwegian Institute for Water Research): “Coherent and cross-compliant ocean governance for delivering the EU Green Deal for European Seas”

Rapporteur:       Ingrid Andreassen, (Ph.D. Candidate, NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University                   of Norway)

13:00-14:00       Lunch (Sjampanjekantina)

14.00-15.30        Panel 3. Spatiality and law across sectors Live stream here!

                               Moderator:        Maria Madalena Das Neves (Associate Professor, NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

                               Speakers:

  1. Henry Jones (Associate Professor, Durham Law School, Durham University):“Property at Sea”
  2. Mitchell Lennan (Affiliate Researcher, Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, Strathclyde Law School): “Climate adaptation in international fisheries law: Looking beyond the law of the sea?”
  3. Endalew Lijalem Enyew (Post-doctoral researcher, NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway): “Legal construction of ocean space and indigenous peoples' traditional fishing rights across maritime zones” 
  4. Sofie Elise Quist (University of Edinburgh, Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Systems): “Exploring legal geographies of Food Sovereignty”

Rapporteur:       Bastiaan Klerk (Ph.D. Candidate NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

19.00                     Conference dinner at Kystens Hus (2nd floor)

 

Thursday 24 November

09:00-09.30        Keynote speaker: Marit Reigstad (Professor in Marine Ecology and Principal                                        Investigator of the Nansen Legacy, UiT the Arctic University of Norway) "Arctic Ocean space from a climate and ecosystem perspective" Live stream here!

9.30-09.45          Coffee

09.45-11.15        Panel 4. Ocean space, dynamism, and law Live stream here!

Moderator:        Kristine Elfrida Dalaker (Researcher, NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

                               Speakers:

  1. Apostolos Tsiouvalas (Ph.D. Candidate NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway): “Law of the Sea in the Kinocene”
  2. Katharina Heinrich, (Researcher, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland): “Newly exposed marine areas – The emerging necessity for a more dynamic approach to ocean management” (Also on behalf of Professor Timo Koivurova, University of Lapland, Finland)
  3. Bastiaan Klerk (Ph.D. Candidate NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway): “Towards Dynamic Area-Based Management Tools: International Legal Hurdles and Possibilities”
  4. Richard Barnes (Professor, University of Lincoln, UK and NCLOS Uit the Arctic University of Norway) and Nandor Knust (Associate Professor, UiT the Arctic University of Norway): “Stateless space and the evolution of criminal jurisdiction at sea”

Rapporteur:       Nikolaos Gkikas (Ph.D. Candidate NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

11.15-12.15        Lunch (Sjampanjekantina)

12.15-13.45        Panel 5. Conceptualizing ocean space Live stream here!

Moderator:        Iva Parlov (post-doctoral researcher, NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

                               Speakers:

  1. Jakub Ciesielczuk (Lecturer, Neapolis University Pafos) and Pannavit Tapaneeyakorn (PhD candidate in international law, Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice, Lincoln Law School, UK): “The curious case of governing marine genetic resources originated from sedentary species from the deep seabed”
  2. Hilde Woker (Assistant Professor, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University): “Challenging the notion of ‘one single continental shelf’
  3. Mazyar Ahmad (Ph.D. Candidate NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway): “Mankind and the Ocean Space”
  4. Nicolas Kempf (Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Montréal):“The Area’s evolving regime and its structural limits”

Rapporteur:       Konstantinos Deligiannis-Viros (Ph.D. Candidate NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

13.45-14.00        Closing of the conference - Signe Veierud Busch, Associate Professor, NCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of                        Norway




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