2025

• The 18th Polar Law Symposium: Indigenous Rights, Autonomy, Empowerment & Environment
  • Nuuk, Greenland, 22-24 October 2025
  • Official website of the Polar Law Symposium and the Yearbook Launched

• AASCO 2025 – Arena for the Gap Analysis of Existing Arctic Science Co-Operations
  • Kamrul Hossain - the leader of the UArctic Thematic Network attended the event.

• Speaking at the First International Year for Glaciers Preservation : Planning Toward the 5th International Polar Year (IPY-5) 2032-2033 webinar

• Contributing to the session 4.1: Actor Scoping: Aims and Objectives of Arctic Research Cooperation & Diplomacy. ASSW 2025 and the ICARP IV, March 21-29, 2025.
  • The presentation title was “Science to Diplomacy for a Rule-Based Order in the Arctic”.
• Presentation at the seminar "Asia and the Arctic: Encounters and Entanglements" in Hokkaido University, in July 2025
  •  Presentation title: "Relationship between the Arctic and the Third Pole". Delivered by Thematic Network lead Kamrul Hossain.
• Lecture in Hokkaido Summer Institute Course "Understanding the Changing Arctic and Its Global Interconnections", in June-July 2025
  • Taught by the Thematic Network lead, Prof. Kamrul Hossain. Lecture title: "The Arctic from the Perspective of International and Indigenous Law".
• Presentation at the final Okinawa International and Interdisciplinary Seminar on Decolonizing Futures: Research, Art/Film and Activism to Establish an Era of Hope for Future Generations, in July 2025
  • Thematic Network lead, Prof. Kamrul Hossain's presentation title: "Determining Indigenous Peoples' legitimate rights through human rights treaty monitoring bodies with special reference to the Nordic Saami".

• The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) celebrated its 40th anniversary on September 18, 2025, with a seminar on Arctic law and Indigenous rights.
  • The event highlighted NIEM’s longstanding commitment to linking academic research with the realities of Arctic communities. 
  • It also hosts the University of the Arctic’s (UArctic) Thematic Network on Arctic Law, as well as the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education

• The Second Inter-Polar Conference 2025, the special theme of the Conference – Cryosphere, People, and Climate Change – reflects the objectives of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP) 2025. 

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• Polar Law Symposium 2022
• Interdisciplinary curricula on indigenous and tribal peoples’ studies (2020-2022)
• Meet the Arctic: An interdisciplinary approach to learning Arctic societies, peoples and cultures (2021-2023) - project forzen
• Current Developments in Arctic Law
• Call for papers: Current Developments in Arctic Law, special issue, Volume 10, 2022

• Joint project on curriculum development for interdisciplinary Master’s program “STEP into Russian Arctic”
• Food (in)Security in the Arctic: Contribution of Traditional and Local Food to promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the European High North, https://www.arcticcentre.org/EN/projects/foodsecurity
• 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences - ICASS X - 15-19 June 2021 Arkhangelsk:
  • Thematic network on Arctic Law will held a panel session on “Food security in the Circumpolar region, challenges and solutions”
  • The sub-group of the Thematic Network – the Philosophy of Law – will host a panel session titled “Man and Law in the Arctic: traditional, corporate, international and national life support regimes”
• Societal Security collaboration in research and education (01.08.2019 → 31.12.2020). Visit the project webpage here.
• Pilot project for institutionalizing research-end user cooperation in societal security research (2019-2020). Visit the project webpage here.
• Polar Law Symposium 2020
• Arctic Law Summer School,12-18 July, 2020 in Arkhangelsk, Russia, joint organization with Northern (Arctic) Federal University
• Food (in)Security in the Arctic: The final project workshop, August 26-27, 2019, Rovaniemi
• Finnish-Japanese Summer School on Arctic Studies, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, July 26 - August 7, 2019
• Finnish-Japanese Arctic Studies Program, https://www.arcticcentre.org/EN/projects/finnish-japanese-arctic-studies
• Ice Law Project: This project seeks to investigate the potential for a legal framework that acknowledges the complex geophysical environment in the world’s frozen regions and explores the impact that an ice-sensitive legal system would have on topics ranging from the everyday activities of Arctic residents to the territorial foundations of the modern state.
• Publication: Philosophy of Law in the Arctic (Bunikowski)
• Publication: Russian Laws on Indigenous Issues: Guarantees, Communities, Territories of Traditional Land Use: Translated and Commented (Zadorin, Klisheva, Vezhlivtseva and Antufieva 2017)

Kamrul Hossain, Lead of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law, interviewed by Nepal Television

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