Join the Singapore Sustainable Futures Initiative (SSFI) and the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia for a lunchtime seminar delivered by Professor Vito De Lucia (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) on the pressing issue of Arctic Governance.
This seminar will focus on the recent history of the Arctic Council in the context of the ongoing geopolitical shifts, with the view of tackling a set of interrelated questions, and bring them into an open conversation: the philosophy of conflict of the so-called “Italian theory” of political and legal philosophy with its attendant problematization of the western liberal view that conflict must be neutralized; the footnote in the Ottawa Declaration relating to military security matters in the scope of operation of the Arctic Council; the realist consideration that Arctic exceptionalism was never exceptional; how future scenarios might require that the Arctic Council shall deal directly with security concerns; and the potential need of its “opening up” in terms of its constituent structure, if it is to remain the pivot of Arctic cooperation.
This seminar will be hosted by SSFI Director Associate Professor Nengye Liu (Yong Pung How School of Law). A bento lunch is included for attendees.
SPEAKERS
Professor Vito De Lucia
Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Vito De Lucia is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Director of the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS). His most immediate research interests are located at the intersection of international law, oceans and ecology. His methodological approach is pluralist, utilizing contextual, critical/socio-legal and doctrinal research methods and he is particularly interested in the historical and theoretical contextualization of law. His current research agenda focuses broadly on ocean commons, on the conservation of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction and on Arctic marine governance. He is Senior Editor of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. He is author of The Ecosystem Approach in International Environmental law. Genealogy and Biopolitics (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of International Law and Areas beyond National Jurisdiction. Reflections on Power, Knowledge, Space and Justice (BRILL, 2022). He is currently writing a new monograph on a critical history of the concept of sanctuary in international law (Routledge).
Host:
Associate Professor Nengye Liu
Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
Director of the Singapore Sustainable Futures Initiative
DETAILS
Date: 21 November 2025, Friday
Time: 12pm to 1pm [Registration commences at 11.45am]
Venue: Meeting Room 5-04, Level 5, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
REGISTRATION
Please click HERE to register. Registration closes on 14 November 2025, 2pm.
