Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic: The Role of Non-Arctic Actors. Edited by Akiho Shibata, Leilei Zou, Nikolas Sellheim, and Marzia Scopelliti. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xvi, 286. Index

[...]there is a new impetus to both Arctic diplomacy and the study of the legal structures that set the framework for that diplomacy.1 In circumstances where much is happening in the Arctic and the law is evolving to keep up, it is particularly helpful to have available the new compendium of contributions in Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic: The Role of Non-Arctic Actors. The book is co-edited by Akiho Shibata, professor of international law and director of the Polar Cooperation Research Centre at Kobe University; Leilei Zou, professor at Shanghai Ocean University; Nicolas Sellheim, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki; and Marzia Scopelliti, a PhD student at the Complutense University of Madrid, and is the outcome of an international legal symposium in December 2017 convened at the Polar Cooperation Research Center. Taking into account that land and the maritime zones as reflected in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), most areas fall within some form of national legal jurisdiction. Additional regimes include the International Maritime Organization and its numerous treaties and regulatory initiatives (such as the recent Polar Code,4 which addresses environmental and navigation issues for shipping), the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling,5 the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,6 and the Convention on International Civil Aviation.7 Generally relevant, of course, is the UN Charter.