Towards an Historic Svalbard Judgment in Norway’s Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Norway has heard the parties in a case that a Latvian shipping company filed against Norwegian authorities because the company was not permitted to catch snow crab on the continental shelf around the Svalbard archipelago. This article provides a short comment on the court procee...
| Published in: | Arctic Review on Law and Politics |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law
2023
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| Online Access: | https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/5382 https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.5382 |
| Summary: | The Supreme Court of Norway has heard the parties in a case that a Latvian shipping company filed against Norwegian authorities because the company was not permitted to catch snow crab on the continental shelf around the Svalbard archipelago. This article provides a short comment on the court proceedings, placing emphasis on the international legal questions that the Supreme Court shall decide. |
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