Editorial

Around the globe and across disciplines, recent years have seen a burst of special symposia, conferences, edited volumes and, yes, journals like this one devoted to “The Arctic.” This is welcome news to those who have worked on questions of law in the Arctic for some time. As guest editors for this special issue we jumped at the opportunity to invite articles from both established and up and coming lawyers and legal academics, some of whom concentrate on questions of Arctic law and others who bring their expertise fresh from another field to bear on issues relevant to the Arctic. The Arctic Law Thematic Network (ALTN) of the University of the Arctic,1 of which we are founding members, is...