Professional Affiliation

Fulbright Arctic Initiative IV Scholar, Polar Institute

Expert Bio

Rachael Lorna Johnstone is professor of law at the University of Akureyri, Iceland, and at Ilisimatusarfik, the University of Greenland. She is a Fulbright Arctic Initiative IV scholar at the Polar Institute, Wilson Center. Rachael specializes in Polar law: the governance of the Arctic and the Antarctic under international and domestic law. She has published widely on decolonisation under international law, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, international human rights law, governance of extractive industries in the Arctic, international environmental law, state responsibility and due diligence, and Arctic strategies. Her books include Routledge Handbook of Polar Law (Routledge 2023) with Yoshifumi Tanaka and Vibe Ulfbeck, Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic (Routledge 2020) with Anne Merrild Hansen, Arctic Governance in a Changing World (Rowman and Littlefield 2019) with Mary Durfee, and Offshore Oil and Gas Development in the Arctic under International Law: Risk and Responsibility (Brill 2015).