PhD Course: Sustainable Marine Arctic and Law of the Sea in Context

The course is delivered as part of the project Future Arctic Law and Governance (FALG), and covers substantive and methodological aspects of both legal and interdisciplinary research relevant for doctoral researchers on the topic of law and governance of the marine Arctic, with specific reference to law of the sea and international environmental law.

The course will train doctoral students on reading and understanding law of the sea in context, by combining doctrinal approaches focusing on sources (eg the Law of the Sea Convention, and other legal instruments, including the role of soft law and other cooperative arrangements) and interpretation (with focus on systemic integration), with a variety of legal theories and methodologies that will help students locate and understand law in relation to other fields of inquiry (eg geography, history, ecology and international politics). The course covers topics that will be of direct relevance to individual students’ doctoral projects and the students should be able to refine their research questions as well as develop the analytical framework for their research projects.

Applicants should detail how their project fit with the cpurse content in their letter of motivation to be included with the application.

Participants in the course should be preferably admitted to a PhD program in law, but Phd students in proximate disciplines and with some background in relevant legal subjects may be considered. The course will take place on 19-21 October 2026.

Registration is now open! Follow the link on right hand. 

The application deadline is 15 August 2026. There is no tuition fee for this course.