Tuesday 16 June

09:00-09:10   Opening the seminar

Magne Frostad, Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Law, UiT

09:10-09:15   Welcome and the Program

Endalew Enyew, Leader of Research Group for Sámi and Indigenous Peoples Law

09:15-09:30   Short presentation round

All participants

09:30-09:40   Information on NKJ and NKJ network projects

Sofie Andersson, NKJ Secretariat

09:40-10:05   Information on the NORSIL-NKJ funding: Status and plans

Christina Allard, Endalew Enyew, Kamrul Hossain

10:05-10:20   Coffee/tea break

10:20-10:40   Information on the GRIP-Bear funding

Christina Allard, Endalew Enyew, Kamrul Hussain

10:40-11:10   The work of the Barents Cooperation WGIP and BYC

Jens Kristian Øvstebø, Secretariat for WGIP and BYC

11:10-11:30   Questions and reflections

Theme 1: The Sámi traditional knowledge (árbediehtu) within reindeer herding and its relevance in the ‘green transition’

Moderator: Christina Allard

11.30-12.00   Árbediehtu as a legal source in Sámi law

Aila Selfors

12:00-13:30   Lunch

13:30-14:30   Panel and discussion

Aila Selfors, Anne-Maria Magga, and Kristina Labba, and all participants

14:30-14:45   Coffee/tea break

Theme 2: Relevance of Sámi traditional knowledge in domestic courts and practices of UN treaty monitoring bodies

Moderator: Dorothee Cambou

14:45-15:15   Sámi traditional knowledge in court

Camille Parguel

15:15:15:45   Sámi Siida Cases v. Finland before UN Treaty Bodies: Paving the Way for Recognizing Traditional Reindeer Herding Governance?

Leena Hansen, Anne-Maria Magga, and Martta Alajärvi

15:45-16:15   Fragmentation of Rights: Sámi Land Use in Norwegian and Finnish Courts

Gilbert A. Akame and Sade Hammami (Mäntylä)

16:15-16:25   Coffee/tea break

16:25-16:55   Discussion and comparative reflections (Theme 2)

All participants

16:55-17:00   Closing the day

19:00-21:30   Diner at Clarion Hotel The Edge, Tromsø city center