Seminar at the Queen Mary University of London!

In collaboration with the Queen Mary University of London, the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education, the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law of the Arctic Centre, and the UArctic Law Thematic Network jointly organized a seminar entitled "Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability" took place at the Law School of the Queen Mary University of London on July 21, 2023. The one-day Seminar attracted six scholarly presentations in three sessions and a concluding synthesis presentation summarising the deliberations' content. The Seminar addressed topical issues, including climate litigation and climate justice, rights of nature and a right to a clean environment while highlighting Indigenous cosmovision and worldviews that reshape our understanding of international law and of Anthropocene and rights of nature through a decolonized knowledge structure. Speakers in the Seminar were Dr. Agnes Rydberg from the University of Sheffield; Dr. Leena Heinämäki and Prof. Kamrul Hossain from the University of Lapland; Prof. Malgosia Fitzmaurice,  Dr Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa and Ms. Pauline Martini from the Queen Mary University of London; and Doctoral researcher Mohammad Golam Sarwar from SOAS University of London. The Seminar attracted lively discussions after each presentation. Participants were a group of 30 scholars from early career to senior, primarily in the field of law but also in other disciplines, such as Indigenous studies and social sciences.