ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM

The Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (University of Tasmania, Australia) is proud to join the Polar Law Institute (University of Akureyri, Iceland), the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law – Arctic Centre (University of Lapland, Finland), the University of the Arctic and its Arctic Law Thematic Network (Finland) to host the 12th Polar Law Symposium. This will be the second time the event has been held in Tasmania, following the successful 7th Symposium held in 2014. The 12th Polar Law Symposium will once again be held at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) campus in Hobart, the capital city of the state of Tasmania, Australia. Academics, students and practitioners from around the world will attend and participate in this event, which will include sessions on topics: Developments in polar law, Polar marine resources, Climate law, Native peoples and human rights, The Antarctic Treaty system, Arctic Council, Developments in international law Asian interests in polar affairs Polar economies and industry

12th Polar Law Symposium Program

Sunday 1 December 17:00 – 19:00

60th Anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty
Icebreaker and Registration, 12th Polar Law Symposium
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point
Canapes and drinks will be served.

Day 1, Monday 2 December

08:30 Registration
09:00 Official Opening – Aurora Lecture Theatre
MC: Julia Jabour
09:05 Uncle Dougie Mansell – Welcome to Country
09:15 Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner, AC – Governor of Tasmania (Opening)
09:30 Vice Chancellor Professor Rufus Black – University of Tasmania (Welcome)
09:45 Tribute to the late Ágúst Þór Árnason
09:50 Keynote: Ambassador Marie Jacobsson – The Fundamental Principles of Polar Law

10:30–11:00 Morning Tea in the Gallery

The Fundamental Principles of Polar Law – Chair: Julia Jabour

11:00 Richard Rowe – The endurance of the Antarctic Treaty
11:30 Tas van Ommen – Ice
12:00 Timo Koivurova – Possible future stresses on the polar regions (tbc)

12:30–14:00 Lunch

Developments in Polar Law – Chair: Marcus Haward

14:00 Natalia Loukacheva – Polar law-making and the Arctic Council
14:20 Tony Press – Law-making in the Antarctic Treaty System
14:40 Donald R Rothwell – Hawke’s Antarctic Legacy: The Madrid Protocol
15:00 Andrew Serdy – The Long Grass at the North Pole

15:30–16:00 Afternoon Tea in the Gallery

Indigenous People – Chair: Guðmundur Alfreðsson

16:00 Grant Christensen – Native Alaskan Corporations as models
16:20 Yu Cao – Communities’ reflections on oil companies’ CSR
16:40 Corinna Casi – Indigenous common struggles and strategies

17:30 Reception at Government House. Buses leave IMAS promptly (return ~19:15)

Day 2, Tuesday 3 December

PCRC-ArCS Special Session – Arctic legal and policy research 2020–25 #1

Session – Chair: Akiho Shibata

09:00 Kentaro Nishimoto
09:20 Betsy Baker
09:40 Tanja Joona
10:00 John Abrahamson

Session – Chair: Indi Hodgson-Johnston

09:00 Kamrul Hossain
09:20 Alan Hemmings
09:40 Johnny Grøneng Aase

10:30–11:00 Morning Tea in the Gallery

PCRC-ArCS Special Session – Arctic legal and policy research 2020–25 #2

Session – Chair: Akiho Shibata

11:00 Baozhi Cheng
11:15 Mana Tugend & Dorothée Cambou
11:30 Romain Chuffart et al
11:45 Alexandra Carlton

Session – Chair: Dwayne Menezes

11:00 Randy ‘Church’ Kee
11:15 Heather Nicol
11:30 Christian Leuprecht

12:30–14:00 Lunch

Book Launch

Nengye Liu, Cassandra M Brooks, Tianbao Qin (eds), Governing Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions (Edward Elgar, 2019)

Kobe PCRC Special Session – Antarctic Treaty System Resilience – Chair: Akiho Shibata

14:00 Patrizia Vigni
14:15 Jill Barrett
14:30 Kees Bastmeijer
14:45 Zia Madani

15:30–16:00 Afternoon Tea in the Gallery

Policy–Law–Science Nexus in Antarctica – Chair: Luis Valentín Ferrada

16:00 Osamu Inagaki & Gen Hashida
16:15 Sakiko Hataya & Akiho Shibata
16:30 Arron Honiball
16:45 Jason Thomson

International Law – Chair: Natalia Loukacheva

16:00 Alla Pozdnakova
16:15 Rachael Lorna Johnstone
16:30 Ekaterina Antsygina
16:45 Xueping Li
17:00 Sen Wang

19:00 Conference Dinner – Frank Restaurant, 1 Franklin Wharf, Hobart

Day 3, Wednesday 4 December

Antarctic Treaty System 1 – Chair: Julia Jabour

09:00 Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
09:15 Luis Valentín Ferrada
09:30 Indi Hodgson-Johnston
09:45 Caroline Foster
10:00 David Leary

NGOs in Polar Affairs (Pre-Recorded) – Chair: Lyn Goldsworthy

09:00 Hanne Nielsen & Gabriela Roldan (live)
09:15 Lena Zharkova
09:30 Nicole Bransome
09:45 Jiliang Chen
10:00 Claire Christian
Eunhee Kim

10:30–11:00 Morning Tea in the Gallery

Special Session: Antarctic Documents Database Demonstration

Antarctic Marine – Chair: Nengye Liu

11:00 Denzil Miller & E Murray
11:20 Lyn Goldsworthy
11:40 Nikolas Kempf
12:00 Leilei Zou

Arctic Marine – Chair: Rachael Lorna Johnstone

11:00 Godfred Khartey
11:20 Jan Solski
11:40 Andrew Simon-Butler
12:00 David Vanderzwaag

12:30–14:00 Lunch (Sponsored by The Tasmanian Polar Network)

Environmental Law and Management – Chair: Timo Koivurova

14:00 Hema Nadarajah
14:20 Seita Romppanen & Sabaa Ahmad Khan
14:40 Assi Harkoma

15:30–16:00 Afternoon Tea in the Gallery

Polar Commentaries – Chair: Tony Press

16:00 Edythe Weeks
16:15 Roald Berg
16:30 Yuanyuan Ren
16:45 Nengye Liu

17:00 Official Close and handover to Professor Akiho Shibata, Kobe University – host of 13th Polar Law Symposium 2020

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