The Law of the Sea and the Arctic Ocean

• Main Author: Cinelli, Claudia
• Other Authors: Universidad de Sevilla. Derecho Internacional Público y Relaciones Internacionales
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway 2021
• Subjects: Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); Arctic Ocean; Sea-ice and Ice Islands; Trans-Arctic Passages; Arctic Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf; Arctic Maritime Zones beyond National Jurisdiction; Sub/Circumpolar Cooperation; Arctic; Barents Sea; Ilulissat; Norway; Arctic review on law and politics; Ilulissat Declaration; Law of the Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/108408

Rather than proposing new legal instruments for addressing the contemporary significant changes of the Arctic Ocean, both the 2008 Ilulissat Declaration and the 2010 Chelsea ministerial meeting reaffirm the five Arctic coastal States’ commitment to the Law of the Sea. Since then, several of them hav...