The 18th Polar Law Symposium will be held in Nuuk, Greenland, on 22nd – 24th October 2025. It is jointly organized by Ilisimatusarfik (the University of Greenland) and the University of Akureyri, Iceland. The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland, Finland, the University of Akureyri, Iceland, and the University of Arctic and its Arctic Law Thematic Network are supporting organisations of the Polar Law Symposia.
The overarching theme of the symposium, Indigenous Rights, Autonomy, Empowerment and Environment, encourages attention to unresolved and emerging issues in polar law as well as Greenland’s unique legal, constitutional, political, and historical positions.
This is the second time that the Polar Law Symposium is held in Greenland, following the successful 4th Polar Law Symposium in 2011. Participants will see many changes in Nuuk since their last visit, including rapid a new international airport with direct flights to Europe and the US, many new hotels, a shopping centre and a rapidly growing university.
The Polar Law Symposium has been held annually since 2008. Interested contributors are encouraged to review the details and programme of the 17th Polar Law Symposium, held in Östersund, Sápmi, in September 2024. Participants at all the symposia are encouraged to submit their work for blind peer review and publication in the Yearbook of Polar Law.
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Find the full program and how to register at Ilisimatusarfik's website: https://da.uni.gl/.../indigenous-rights-autonomy.../