International Law and Sea Level Rise: Report of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise edited by VIDAS Davor, FREESTONE David, and Jane McADAM. Brill Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea Series Leiden/Boston: Brill Nijhoff, 2019. 180 pp. Softcover: €70.00/USD$84.00; eBook: €70.00/USD$84.00. doi: 10.1163/9789004398191_002

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Selman AKSÜNGER
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Law ◽  
And Sea Level

Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 133-157
Author(s):  
Vladyslav Lanovoy ◽  
Sally O’Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Legal Fiction ◽  
Temporary Solution ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
And Sea Level

Abstract This article examines the challenges that climate change and sea-level rise pose to certain key aspects of the law of the sea. Sea-level rise is likely to impact maritime baselines, the qualification of maritime features and the entitlements they generate, and ultimately the stability of maritime boundaries, which are critical for the peaceful co-existence of sovereign States. This article examines whether some of the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea can accommodate a liberal interpretation so as to provide some, even if incomplete, answers to the challenges posed by sea-level rise to the law of the sea regime. It is argued that the legal fiction of permanency that underpins key elements of this legal regime, and thus ignores future physical changes to coastlines, is the most appropriate temporary solution, unless and until new rules are agreed by States to deal comprehensively with sea-level rise.

The Impact of Sea Level Rise on Maritime Limits: A Grotian Moment in the Law of the Sea?

Grotiana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-303
Author(s):  
Snjólaug Árnadóttir
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
National Jurisdiction ◽  
The Law ◽  
Coastal Features ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The legal order of the oceans centres on coastal geography which is undergoing unprecedented changes. Claims to national jurisdiction are based on distance from the coast and are only enforceable as long as they are consistent with international law. Consequently, sea level rise and submergence of coastal features can affect the location and enforceability of unilateral maritime limits and bilateral boundaries. Some States wish to maintain previously established entitlements around submerged territory but the only way to prevent fluctuations of unilateral limits is through artificial conservation of coastlines. Therefore, a change, in either the location of maritime entitlements or rules governing such entitlements, is inevitable. It has been proposed that maritime limits should be frozen to ensure opposability as coastlines change. That would enable States to exercise sovereignty and sovereign rights over areas that have no anchor in coastal territory, arguably causing a departure from the land dominates the sea principle and a Grotian Moment in the law of the sea. However, this article concludes that it is unlikely that proposals to freeze maritime limits will change the law of the sea and that the proposals may in fact serve to deter another paradigm shift, one that involves a departure from the principle of stable boundaries.

Remarks by Nilüfer Oral

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 393-396
Author(s):  
Nilüfer Oral
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Study Group ◽  
The Law ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Law Commission

I would like to begin by first acknowledging and thanking Bogdan Aurescu, my Co-chair and co-author of the International Law Commission (ILC) Study Group on Sea-Level Rise First Issues Paper on the law of the sea whose contribution is very much part of this presentation.

Singapore

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 836-846
Author(s):  
Millicent McCreath
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Law ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
National University ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Law

Abstract This article summarises and discusses the main issues addressed at the conference hosted by the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore in March 2018 on Climate Change and the Law of the Sea: Adapting the Law of the Sea to Address the Challenges of Climate Change. The conference covered topics including the status and entitlement of offshore features, impacts of sea-level rise on baselines, the content of the LOSC climate change obligations, climate change dispute settlement under the LOSC, and possible ways to develop or adapt the LOSC to address the challenges of climate change.

Implications of Sea-Level Rise for the Law of the Sea

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Ekrem Korkut ◽  
Lara B. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
The Law
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