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The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode are:
Maersk using a polar shipping route
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/640679831/worlds-largest-shipping-company-heads-into-arctic-as-global-warming-opens-the-wa?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr
The Antarctic Treaty
https://www.state.gov/t/avc/trty/193967.htm
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm
NASA data on summer ice melt
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/end-of-summer-arctic-sea-ice-extent-is-eighth-lowest-on-record
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Russian Military Buildup Map
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/25/heres-what-russias-military-build-up-in-the-arctic-looks-like-trump-oil-military-high-north-infographic-map/
Russian and Global Icebreaker Buildup
http://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/Office%20of%20Waterways%20and%20Ocean%20Policy/20170501%20major%20icebreaker%20chart.pdf?ver=2017-06-08-091723-907
Arctic Council
http://arctic-council.org/index.php/en/
Section of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 approving drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1/BILLS-115hr1enr.pdf#page=182
Oil Spill regulations in the Arctic
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/environment_energy_resources/resources/baker_sidortsov_hydrocabon_Arctic.authcheckdam.pdf
Oil Spill hazards in the Arctic
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-is-not-ready-to-clean-up-an-arctic-oil-spill/
Careers in National Security Law Book
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/nsl_text.pdf
Lindsay Rodman’s biography and contact info:
http://www.cips-cepi.ca/linsday-l-rodman-postdoctoral-fellow/
For more about National Security and the Arctic, watch the full video of a panel from the 27th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law, titled “The Arctic: National Security and Oceans Law for the New Maritime Frontier”
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_services/law_national_security/events_cle/past_annual_review_conferences/27ARC-panel-7.html