Sea Level Change and Maritime Boundaries

Acknowledgements *

Table of Cases *

Table of Treaties and Legal Instruments *

List of Abbreviations *

List of Illustrations *

Introduction *

Chapter 1: The Concern *

1.1 Sea Level Rise and the Impact of a Changing Baseline *

1.2 Conclusion *

Chapter 2: The Baseline *

2.1 The Normal Baseline *

2.2 Atolls and Reefs *

2.3 Straight Baselines *

2.4 Coastlines: Deeply Indented, Cut into or the Presence of a Fringe of Islands *

2.5 Mouths of Rivers *

2.6 Bays *

2.7 Particular Coastal Circumstances *

2.7.1 Historic Bays *

2.7.2 Highly Unstable Coastlines *

2.8 Low-Tide Elevations *

2.9 Archipelagic States *

2.9.1 Straight Archipelagic Baselines *

2.10 Base Points Along Ice Formations *

2.11 Conclusion *

Chapter 3: Islands *

3.1 The Constitutive Elements of an Island *

3.2 Rocks in the Regime of Islands *

3.3 The Requirements of Human Habitation or Economic Life of their Own *

3.4 Submerging Islands *

3.5 "New" and "Uncovered" Islands *

3.6 Conclusion *

Chapter 4: The Judicial Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries *

4.1 The Applicable Law Governing the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries *

4.2 Land - the Source of a State's Rights over Adjacent Waters *

4.3 Delimitation of Overlapping Maritime Zones *

4.3.1 Base Points *

4.4 Delimitation of the Territorial Sea *

4.4.1 Historic Title or Special Circumstances *

4.4.2 The Median Line *

4.5 Delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf *

4.5.1 The Delimitation Methodologies and Coastal Geography *

4.5.2 The Equidistance/Relevant Circumstances Method *

4.5.3 Relevant Circumstances *

4.5.4 The Disproportionality Test *

4.6 The Angle-Bisector Method *

4.7 Coastal Instability *

4.8 Conclusion *

Chapter 5: Stability and Clarity *

5.1 Maritime Boundaries established by a Judicial Decision or an Agreement *

5.2 Unilaterally Declared Maritime Boundaries *

5.2.1 State Practice *

5.2.2 Maritime Limits (1): Historic Title or Historic Rights *

5.2.3 Maritime Limits (2): Permanence *

5.4 Sea Level Rise and Maritime Delimitation by Judicial Institutions *

5.5 Monitoring the Stability of Baselines and Base Points *

5.6 Conclusion *

Concluding Remarks *

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