Towards an Historic Svalbard Judgment in Norway’s Supreme Court
Abstract
The Supreme Court of Norway has heard the parties in a case that a Latvian shipping company filed against Norwegian authorities because the company was not permitted to catch snow crab on the continental shelf around the Svalbard archipelago. This article provides a short comment on the court proceedings, placing emphasis on the international legal questions that the Supreme Court shall decide.
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Published
2023-02-06
How to Cite
Jensen, Øystein. (2023). Towards an Historic Svalbard Judgment in Norway’s Supreme Court. Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 14, 83–85. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.5382
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News on Arctic Law and Politics
Keywords:
Svalbard Treaty, snow crab, continental shelf
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Copyright (c) 2023 Øystein Jensen
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
