Introduction to the Special Issue on “Arctic and Antarctic Regions: New Challenges for Ocean Governance”

This special issue of the Belgian Review of International Law reproduces the papers presented at the conference “Arctic and Antarctic Regions: New Challenges for Ocean Governance”, which was held on 3 September 2018 at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, Belgium. This conference was the first colloquium organized further to the decision adopted by the Belgian Society of International Law during its General Assembly held on 6 October 2017, to support, on an annual basis, the joint organization by a Flemish and a French speaking university of an international conference under its auspices. In accordance with this new policy, the first event was the result of a cooperation between the Université catholique de Louvain and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.