13th Polar Law Symposium

Panel on Policy-Law-Science Nexus in Polar Regions
presents online interactive seminar

Antarctic policy-science interface:
A way forward
11 November 2020 (Wed) 17:00-19:00 JST / 8:00-10:00 GMT
Zoom Meeting (pre-registration required)

Speakers:

Ewan McIvor (Australian Antarctic Division)
Kevin Hughes (British Antarctic Survey)
Neil Gilbert (Constantia Consulting)This seminar is co-organised by SCAR SCHASS Action Group on
PoLSciNex

Mr. Ewan McIvor

Mr Ewan McIvor is Senior Environmental Policy Adviser with theAustralian Antarctic Division (AAD) of the Australian Government
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. He has
worked at the AAD for over 20 years in a range of environmental
management and policy roles. Mr McIvor is Australia’s
representative to the Committee for Environmental Protection(CEP), the peak intergovernmental body for considering protectionof the Antarctic environment. He was the CEP Chair from 20152018 and a Vice-Chair from 2008-2012.

Dr. Kevin Hughes

Dr Kevin A. Hughes is the Environmental Research and Monitoring
Manager at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). He is a member ofthe UK Delegation to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting(ATCM), Vice-Chair of the Committee for Environmental
Protection (CEP) and Convenor of the Subsidiary Group on
Climate Change Response (SGCCR). Within the context of theAntarctic, he has broad science and policy interests including
conservation, geological heritage, area protection, non-nativespecies, environmental impact assessment, bioprospecting,environmental monitoring and the expansion of human footprint.
He has visited the polar regions 11 times, including one Antarctic
winter.

Dr. Neil Gilbert

Dr Neil Gilbert has worked on Polar issues in various roles for over
30 years. On behalf of the UK and, more recently, New Zealand
he has attended numerous meetings of the Antarctic Treaty andits Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP) of which he
was the Chair between 2007 and 2010. Dr Gilbert now runs hisown Antarctic consultancy company based in Christchurch, New
Zealand through which he works on a range of Antarctic projects.
Dr Gilbert is the Editor of SCAR’s Antarctic Environments Portal.
He is also leading an Expert Group on the science-policy interface
as part of New Zealand’s Antarctic Science Platform.

Discussion-oriented seminar on
Antarctic policy-science interface
Introduction and presentation of the speakers
Ewan McIvor: ”The important role of science ininternational efforts to protect the Antarcticenvironment”
Kevin Hughes: ”Enhancing science-policy
communication to deliver the Committee forEnvironmental Protection’s Climate Change Response
Work Programme”
Neil Gilbert: ”Assessing the policy impact of the
Antarctic Environments Portal”
Q&AFinal remarks

13th Polar Law Symposium

Panel on Emerging legal, policy and scientific issues in the Antarctic
presents online interactive seminar

Polar Regions, International Law and Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

17 November 2020 (Tue) 10:30-12:30 JSTZoom Meeting (pre-registration through the PLS website required)

Speakers
Claire Christian, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition& Nicolas Bransome
Nicolas Kempf, the University of Montreal

Claire ChristianMs. Claire Christian has worked for the Antarctic andSouthern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) since 2009 and has
substantial expertise on a full range of issues relevant tothe Antarctic environment. Claire leads ASOC’s
delegations to Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings(ATCMs) and meetings of the Commission on theConservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources(CCAMLR). She has authored blogs, opinion pieces, andacademic articles, and has been interviewed by a wide
variety of international publications and media outlets.
Claire has a special fondness for Antarctica’s fascinating
but little-known invertebrate species, and aspires to makethem as famous and beloved as penguins. She has an
M.A. in International Affairs from the American University,
School of International Service.

Nicolas Kempf
Mr. Nicolas Kempf is a Ph.D. candidate at the University ofMontreal, under the supervision of Pr. Suzanne Lalonde.
Mr. Kempf’s research examines Antarctica’s deep seabedlegal regime, and is hence at the crossroads of various
legal streams, including the Law of the Sea, International
Environmental Law, and Polar Law. In 2018 and 2019, hewas a CIGI research fellow, he is now with the North
American and Arctic Defence and Security Network(NAADSN), and with the University of Montreal’s Centerfor International Studies. In January 2021, he will be
lecturer in international law at the University of Montreal’s
Faculty of law.

Discussion-oriented seminar on
Polar Regions, International Law and Areas Beyond
National Jurisdiction

Claire Christian & Nicole Bransome:“An Antarctic perspective on the BBNJ and IPCC processes”
Nicolas Kempf:“Post-2048 ATS: Some inspiring International Seabed
Authority tools”
Q&A
Research questions:
What are the implications of some recent developments in international law
pertaining to areas beyond national jurisdiction (namely the BBNJ Convention)
for the legal regime of the Antarctic?
What are the passible present/future interactions between the ATS andUNCLOS (Namely ISA) with respect to the seabed in the Southern Ocean?

13th Polar Law Symposium

Panel on Emerging legal, policy and scientific issues in the Antarctic:
presents online interactive seminar

Antarctic Governance:
Interfaces between Law and Science ?
19 November 2020 (Thu) 15:00-17:00 JST/ 6:00-08:00 GMT
Zoom Meeting (pre-registration required)
Speakers:

Yelena Yermakova (University of Oslo, Norway)
Valeria Eboli (Italian Navy Academy and University of Pisa, Italy)
Gustavo Ramírez Buchheister (University of Magallanes, Chile)Ms. Yelena Yermakova
Ms Yermakova is a PhD. candidate in Political Theory at
the University of Oslo. She is interested in the interactionof public policy and political philosophy with a focus on
the legitimacy of international institutions. Currently, as apart of her doctoral dissertation, she is developing a seriesof essays on the future governance of Antarctica. She got
her MPA from Cornell University where she focused on theArctic region in the context of the U.S. – Russian relations.

Dr. Valeria Eboli
Dr Eboli is Professor of International Law at the Italian
Naval Academy. She teaches at the University of Pisa andshe is Chair of the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees inNaval and Maritime Sciences of the same University.
Additionally, she is Chair of the Subcommittee on Maritime
Law and Refugee Migration at Sea of the Comité Maritime
International. Her main research interests include thelegal regimes of areas beyond national jurisdiction, humanrights and international law of the sea.

Mr. Gustavo Ramírez
Mr Ramírez Buchheister is a lecturer of History of Law andPublic International Law and researcher at University ofMagallanes (Punta Arenas, Chile). He is currently an LL.M.
candidate at Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany). His
research focuses on the legal regimes of the polar regions,sovereignty, and lately, its contact points with EU-law.

Discussion-oriented seminar on
Antarctic Governance: Interfaces between Law andScience

Introduction and presentation of the speakers
Yelena Yermakova: "The Rule of Law and the Science
Pillar in the Antarctic Governance”
Valeria Eboli: "Bioprospecting: different legal regimes for
Arctic and Antarctic or a single legal regime?"
Gustavo Ramirez Buchheister: "The Antarctic Extended
Continental Shelf: Lessons from the Arctic”
Q&A
Final remarks

13th Polar Law Symposium

Panel on Emerging legal, policy and scientific issues in the Antarctic
presents online interactive seminar

Recent Developments of International Environmental Law
in the Polar Regions

24 November 2020 (Tue) 08:00-10:00 JSTZoom Meeting (pre-registration through the PLS website required)

Speakers

Carolina Flores Barros, Leiden University
Xueping Li, Wuhan University

Carolina Flores Barros
Ms. Carolina Flores Barros is a Chilean Lawyer andAdvanced LL.M in Public International Law (LeidenUniversity). Her field of specialization is international
environmental law, with a special focus on Antarctica. Asan early-career scholar at the Faculty of Law of theUniversity of Chile, she has organised and participated inseveral seminars, symposia and conferences, presenting
her research in International Law and Antarctica.

Xueping LiDr. Xueping Li is full professor of the Law School ofWuhan University. Her constant research field is Public
International Law, and her contemporary research areas
are International Trade Law (WTO Law) and Polar Law.
She has individually published three academic books andmore than 50 academic papers and articles both inChinese and English. However, she is still a newcomer inpolar legal studies because of just stepping in it in late2015, and she is always interested in reading and listening
to all viewpoints on polar law.

Discussion-oriented seminar on
Polar Regions, International Law and Areas Beyond
National Jurisdiction

Carolina Flores:“Responsibility to protect the environment and polar regions:current trends”
Xueping Li:“Conserving the Outstanding Aesthetic Value in Antarctica:
The Matching Rules and Environmental Regulation”
Q&A