Law of the Sea and the Arctic
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About the project
Dr. Árnadóttir has been involved in several projects relating to law of the sea and the Arctic. Her research in this area has focused on agreed maritime boundaries, Iceland´s position as an Arctic State and security threats due to melting ice sheets. She has presented her findings at the Arctic Circle, UArctic Congress and at the Military University Institute, Portugal, as a participant in the NASDS 2022 project (North Atlantic Security and Defense Strategy).
Sea level rise and the melting of Arctic ice poses a security threat in the Arctic because it changes the extent of exclusive maritime entitlements and creates new navigational routes. Maritime limits are ambulatory in all parts of the world under the general interpretation of the Law of the Sea Convention but there are unique concerns in the Arctic due to rapid changes in the sea-ice coverage and the fact that maritime limit have, in some instances, been established along ice instead of terra firma.
Publications
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Snjólaug Árnadóttir and Bjarni Már Magnússon, ‘Maritime Delimitation in the Polar Regions’, Yoshifumi Tanaka, Rachael Johnstone, and Vibe Ulfbeck (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Polar Law (Routledge 2022).
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Forthcoming: Snjólaug Árnadóttir, ‘Iceland‘s Position as a Coastal State in the Arctic’, Eyjólfur Guðmundsson, Embla Eir Oddsdóttir, Valur Ingimundarson, Halla Hrund Logadóttir, Egill Níelsson (eds.) Iceland and the Arctic (Routledge 2022).
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Forthcoming: Snjólaug Árnadóttir, ‘Security Threats in the Arctic due to Ambulatory Maritime Limits‘.
