Hotspot Up North : Perspectives and Challenges in the Arctic
Channel: Polar Law Group
Date: 2020-11-21

This is the Polar Law Group's inaugural webinar. Our three distinguished guests - Dr. Michael Byers, Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Suzanne Lalonde, Professor of Law at the Université de Montréal, and Stephen Mansell, Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of the Government of Nunavut - presents an overview of the legal and political challenges facing the Arctic region from domestic, international and Indigenous perspectives. Topics discussed in this webinar include: the legal status of the Northwest Passage; Nunavut Law Program; access to justice; devolution in Canada's north; international law in the Arctic; Canada's domestic Arctic policy.