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 *
Biography
Antoine Grima is a lecturer at the University of Malta and member of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise.
