Towards an Historic Svalbard Judgment in Norway’s Supreme Court

• Published in: Arctic Review on Law and Politics
• Main Author: Jensen, Øystein
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law 2023
• Subjects: Svalbard Treaty; snow crab; continental shelf; Norway; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Arctic; Arctic review on law and politics; Snow crab
• Online Access: https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/5382; https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.5382

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.