Philosophies of Polar Law

Dawid Bunikowski is Senior Lecturer in Law at the State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek, Poland, Leader of Sub-group of Philosophy of Law at the University of the Arctic, Finland, and Visiting Researcher in the School of Theology (Philosophical Faculty) at the University of Eastern Finland.Alan D. Hemmings is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Gateway Antarctica at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

• Introduction – Emerging Philosophies of Polar Law Part I: Fundamental Concepts of the Philosophies of Polar Law 1. The Philosophy of Law in the Antarctic 2. The Philosophy of Law in the Arctic Part II: Western Legal Framings 3. Decolonising Antarctica 4. The Arctic as Civil Commons 5. Philosophy of Science and Legal Disputes over Whaling in the Southern Ocean Part III: Indigenous and non-Western Framings 6. Legal (non) Recognition of Sámi Customary Relationship with the Land in Finland: Challenges so ar and Prospects in the Modern Human Rights Era 7. Assimilation Policy contra Cultural Viability in the North 8. The Predicates of Chinese Legal Philosophy in the Polar Regions Part IV: The Environment 9. Climate Change and the Role of Indigenous Peoples in Preserving Nature and Biodiversity with Special Emphasis on the Arctic 10. Environmental Perceptions and Values of the Russian Northern Indigenous Peoples