Welcome
Ice complicates a world view where solid, stable land is positioned opposite liquid, mobile water. Ice melts and freezes; it breaks apart and moves; it has both land-like and water-like social properties; its edges are unclear. Ice is as challenging for international lawyers, boundary practitioners, and political theorists as it is for geoscientists and global environmental policymakers.
From 2014 through 2019, the ICE LAW Project investigated the potential for a legal framework that acknowledges the complex geophysical environment in the world’s frozen regions and explored the impact that an ice-sensitive legal system would have on topics ranging from the everyday activities of Arctic residents to the territorial foundations of the modern state. This website archives a record of the ICE LAW Project's objectives, events, and outputs.
The ICE LAW Project was convened by IBRU: the Centre for Borders Research at Durham University, with sponsorship from the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law and funding from a Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant.
From 2014 through 2019, the ICE LAW Project investigated the potential for a legal framework that acknowledges the complex geophysical environment in the world’s frozen regions and explored the impact that an ice-sensitive legal system would have on topics ranging from the everyday activities of Arctic residents to the territorial foundations of the modern state. This website archives a record of the ICE LAW Project's objectives, events, and outputs.
The ICE LAW Project was convened by IBRU: the Centre for Borders Research at Durham University, with sponsorship from the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Law and funding from a Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant.
The ICE LAW project came to a scheduled close on 3rd July 2019. For further information regarding the project objectives, events, and outcomes, please contact Philip Steinberg (Professor of Political Geography at Durham University, UK): [email protected].
Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World
|