Legal Challenges in International Investments, Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Protection (3op)

Sisältö

The program of the Winter school consists of the following courses:
1. Multilevel governance of natural resources in the Arctic.
The course focuses on the interplay of state and non-state actors in governing natural resources, especially oil & gas, minerals and forests. National regulation of land rights and participatory rights of local, especially indigenous people, is compared between Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia and Alaska.

2. Indigenous peoples’ rights to land in the Arctic with comparative approach, including Finland, Sweden and Norway.
This course provides general introduction to the rights concerning the Saami people, particularly in Finland. Comparison is made to the other Nordic countries, especially to Sweden and Norway. The course has an interdisciplinary approach combining the methods of international relations and international law therefore it is suitable for students coming from different disciplines.
Additionally to getting substantive knowledge of the subject students will be able to develop their communication and presentation skills working with people coming from different disciplinary backgrounds and different cultures.

Oppimateriaalit

1. The course “Multilevel governance of natural resources in the Arctic”.

MANDATORY MATERIALS

1) Henry, Laura, Nysten-Haarala, Soili, Tulaeva, Svetlana and Tysiachniouk, Maria, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Oil Industry in the Russian Arctic: Global Norms and Neo-Paternalism. Europe Asia Studies, 2016: 68:8, 1340-1386 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2016.1233523

2) Tulaeva, Svetlana, Nysten-Haarala, Soili (2019). Resource allocation in oil-dependent communities: oil rent and benefit sharing arrangements. Resources 2019 (1st May) 8, 86; 8, doi:10.3390/resources802008.

3) Tysiachniouk, M.; Petrov A. 2018 Benefit sharing in the Arctic energy sector: Perspectives of corporate policies and practices in Northern Russia and Alaska. Energy Reserach & Social Science 39. p. 29-34.

4) Tysiachniouk, M., Henry, L., Lamers, M & Tatenhove, J. van 2017. Oil Extraction and Benefti Sharing in an Illeberal Context: The Nennets and Komi Izhemtsi Indigenous Peoples in the Russian Arctic, Society & Naturla Resources https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2017.1403666.

5) Nysten-Haarala, Soili, Klyuchnikova, Elena and Helenius, Heidi, Law and Self-Regulation – substitutes or Complements in gaining social acceptance. Resources Policy 2015, Vol 45, p. 52-64.

6) Pappila, M.: The interplay of Russian law, indigenous people and the oil industry – a need for non-state regulation? The Yearbook of Polar Law, vol 6, 2015, p. 120-141.


Oheiskirjallisuus

1) Borrows, J. Canada’s Indigenous Constitution. 2010

2) Tysiachniouk, M. & McDermott, C.L. 2016. Forest Certification with Russian characteristics. Forest Policy and Economics 62, p. 43-53.

3) Larsen S.V., Bors E.K., Johannsdottir L., Gladun E., Gritsenko D., Nysten-Haarala S., Tulaeva S. & Sformo, T. (2019) A conceptual framework of Arctic economies for policy-making, research, and practice. Global Policy. DOI:10.1111/1758-5899.12720


2. The course “Indigenous peoples’ rights to land in the Arctic with comparative approach, including Finland, Sweden and Norway”.
1) Tanja Joona, The ILO Convention No. 169 in Nordic Context with Comparative Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Juridica Lapponica, 37, Lapland University Press, 2012.
2) Tanja Joona, Safegurading Cultural Rights of Sámi Children and Youth in Finland, with Special Emphasis on the Linguistic Part of Cultural Identity – Current Challenges. The Yearbook of Polar Law IX (2017) 109-129, Brill, 2018.

Possible other literature, articles etc. are provided by the teacher during the lectures.

Lisätiedot

“Legal Challenges in International Investments, Indigenous Peoples and Environment Protection” (3IPEP) is a two-years project that has been funded with support from the European Commission within Erasmus+ Program. The project is implemented by a consortium of three partners: University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines/Paris Saclay (France), University of Lapland (Finland), Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia). The purpose of the project is to grasp the strong interactions between protection of indigenous people, the protection of environment and the role of multinational companies for the achievement of sustainable development, focusing on – but not limited to – legal issues. The Winter School “Legal Challenges in International Investments, Indigenous Peoples and Environment Protection» in Rovaniemi is a part of the project that will provide educational program for the students of partner universities.

More information: Junior Researcher Olga Pushina, University of Lapland, Faculty of Law olga.pushina@ulapland.fi

Toteutustavat

The format of the Winter school prescribes five days of teaching (20 – 24 January) and one day for final students’ presentations (25 January). Written home examination based on the lectures and the literature mentioned below.


Credits
Participation in the Winter School gives the students possibility to obtain 5 ECTS points (requires active participation in the Winter school, group presentation on the final day and preparation of a written assignment submitted).