Northern Rights #1

25 March 2014

A new Format for Human Rights Research in the Global North Stefan Kirchner Northern Rights is a new publication format regarding human rights in the circumpolar Arctic. The idea behind Northern Rights is to make research on hot topics in human rights law accessible quickly. The texts in Northern Rights will usually be shorter than what one would normally read in a law journal, as well as more time-sensitive for traditional publication models to function. At the same time should the quality not have to suffer. In so far, the project has been inspired by ideas such as the already legendary Bofaxe on International Humanitarian Law from the University of Bochum (highly recommended: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ifhv/6-publications/6-bofaxe.html). In terms of the topics, every issue that relates to human rights and can be relevant for the North is welcome, including local, national and especially international human rights issues, indigenous rights etc. Submissions to Northern Rights should be sent in .docx, .doc or .pages format and should be no longer than 15 single-spaced pages. Please send submissions by email to editor@northernrights.org. In order to establish Northern Rights as a peer-reviewed project, reviewers will be needed as well as an editorial team. If you want to participate in this project, for example as as a reviewer, on the editorial team or as webmaster, please contact the editor: ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirchner, MJI, RA University of Lapland Faculty of Law P.O. Box 122 96101 Rovaniemi Finland stefan.kirchner@ulapland. or editor@northernrights.org.

Northern Rights is a non-prot project and all publications within the project will be made available online free of charge. Northern Rights will only require a non-exclusive right to publish the text, so authors would be free to build on their research even after their text has been published in Northern Rights.