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 * Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… * INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION DOCUMENTS * INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION REPORTS * BOOKS * PAPERS IN JOURNALS * REPORTS * THESES/RESEARCH PAPERS * NEWSPAPER ARTICLES * SPEECHES * WEBSITES * OTHER *"