Cash in on global warming by becoming a "polar lawyer"

Chris Spurgeon says:

With the melting of the northern polar ice cap, the coming decades are sure to see a mad dash to claim the territories (and natural resources) of the far north. But since the laws governing the polar regions are a crazy mish-mash of international treaties, centuries-old customs, indigenous tradition, and conflicting national claims figuring out who has rights to what is no easy chore.

Iceland's University of Akureyri is taking on the task, offering the world's first graduate program in Polar Law. Graduates will gain expertise in everything from the Law of the Sea to climate change to Inuit legal customs. Could be a smart career move for a budding attorney looking for some legal adventure.

(Image from a Polar Law workshop) Link

[#1 posted by Georgia Tills , January 25, 2008 4:49 PM]

My first thought over the upcoming claims from people who don't live there is, people are so disgusting. I wish the Inuit who do live there, good luck.

[#2 posted by Takuan , January 25, 2008 6:12 PM]

hopefully, visiting lawyers will be taken hunting on the ice

[#3 posted by Antinous , January 25, 2008 6:19 PM]

Wait. That was a short story. "The Most Litigious Game."

[#4 posted by grikdog , January 26, 2008 7:53 AM]

How about this? The Vikings reclaim their ancestral lands from the ice, wiping out the ice mice (Saxons, Sammis and other aboriginals) in the process, and the rest of us pay the Danes gold to stay on their side of a line they draw? In three or four hundred years, it will all seem perfectly natural.

[#5 posted by Georgia Tills , January 26, 2008 3:40 PM]

The Inuit lived in the Arctic before the Vikings visited...and the CHINESE actually had settlements in North America before the blond blue eyed Vikings evar did. Well, Asians from that region at least, the 'central country' wasn't formed yet.