ABSTRACT
Sami legal scholarship is a fairly young knowledge field in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish legal scholarship, established as a discipline of its own during the latter part of the twentieth century. Sami legal scholarship is a knowledge field within Nordic legal scholarship and with specific correlations to international indigenous legal scholarship. The object for this scholarship is Sami law. Sami law spans over several areas of law, such as the history of law, constitutional law, public international law, property law, administrative law and environmental law. Institutional settings, like centres and academic positions, journals, Sami law as a subject within the law programme, publications and doctoral theses are all important in the process of making a knowledge field. Political actions and legal reforms contribute to the formulation of a new academic knowledge field. Scholars within the field are often active in several roles, as political actors, as advocates, or as academic researchers forming a specific legal knowledge field.
