The Yearbook of Polar Law

The series will present peer-reviewed scientific articles primarily but exclusively on legal issues relating to both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Specialists in international law, environmental law, and other legal disciplines examine such topics as emerging and re-emerging issues in international law and policy in the polar regions, whether protecting polar wilderness is a useful concept for regulating human activities in the polar regions or just a Western philosophical conceit, land claim agreements in Arctic Canada in light of international human rights norms, charting a sustainable course through changing Arctic waters, protecting Antarctica from non-native species, initial steps in reforming the international legal framework for conserving and managing Arctic fisheries, and reactions and over-reactions to the Russian flag on the seabed at the North Pole. The 24 papers are from a September 2008 international symposium in Akyreyri, Iceland. They are not indexed. Martin Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)