Polar law, that’s where we are!
Hello everyone. This is the first entry of a new blog, and you are very welcome to celebrate this significant event.
I don’t expect a large audience here; actually what I want to do is to make this like an e-library for all that stuff that I find on polar law on the internet. I am doing an LLM in Polar Law at the University of Akureyri; we’ve just finished the introductory course and there’s an take home exam waiting for me out there…
There is one thing to be said. I’ll tell you a great secret. Not only that I am doing the polar law LLM, I am also doing the last third year of my BA in Law studies at the same school so don’t fret if you find, amongst the arctic stuff, notes on the Icelandic administrative law, or Chinese trade law, or some sociology of law or whatever other knowledge our teachers want us to absorb 
So, just to fuel it up a bit, I’m giving you three links that are in one or another way connected to the polar law. Just to say, polar law is not just about law; but also climate change and environment, policy making and governance, risk management and hydrocarbon exploitation… As we have been told, polar law deals with whatever challenges the thawing Arctic bumps into. There are many resources out there, telling you seriously, and the media has already been eager to talk about ‘cold rush’ (I like the term though 
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Anyway, judge for yourself.
The Economist, Of ice and men. It’s not even an article, just a graph showing how fast the Arctic ice has been melting, and a sad cute polar bear to make us all aware of its cuteness… cutility… cutability?.. and the melting Arctic too, apparently.
BBC (I like them, I read them and I’m going to reference them a lot), Major ice-shelf loss for Canada. The story which kinda made me scary, these changes are happening so much faster than we can even think of.
BBC (I told you!), Arctic ice is at ‘tipping point’. For those who haven’t yet realised what it is all about.
