Full Description
Islands and their status in international law have become one of the more contentious issues in public international law. However, despite this, there is no contemporary book-length study on the question. This book fills that gap. Written by one of the world's leading public international lawyers, it offers an authoritative overview of how public international law operates in relation to islands. Key issues such as artificial islands, archipelagos, sovereignty, territorial rights, maritime entitlements, and governance are explored in depth. This will become a classic text in the field of international law.
Contents
Introduction
1. Islands: Geography and Law
I. Introduction
II. Islands and Geography
III. Islands and Juridical Classification
IV. Conclusions
2. Artificial Islands
I. Introduction
II. Scope and Location of Artificial Islands
III. Historical Legal Framework
IV. Early State Practice
V. LOSC
VI. Contemporary State Practice
VII. Artificial Islands, Rocks and Land Reclamation
VIII. Conclusions
3. Islands and Territoriality
I. Introduction
II. International Law and Territoriality
III. Islands and Territoriality
IV. Current State of the Law
V. Contemporary Island Territorial Disputes
VI. Conclusions
4. Islands, Status and Statehood
I. Introduction
II. Islands and the International System
III. Chapter XI Non-Self-Governing Territories and Chapter XII Trust Territories
IV. Current Status of Islands
V. Special Regimes
VI. Conclusions
5. Archipelagic States
I. Archipelagos and International Law
II. Early Legal Developments
III. UNCLOS I
IV. The Indonesian and Philippines Claims
V. UNCLOS III
VI. The LOSC and Archipelagic States
VII. Archipelagic State Entitlements
VIII. Conclusions
6. Dependent Archipelagos
I. Introduction
II. Characterisation
III. Baselines
IV. Maritime Entitlements
V. State Practice
VI. Conclusions
7. Islands and Maritime Entitlements
I. Introduction
II. Baselines
III. Historic Waters
IV. Bays
V. Internal Waters
VI. Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone
VII. Continental Shelf
VIII. Exclusive Economic Zone
IX. Conclusions
8. Islands and Maritime Boundaries
I. Introduction
II. Overview of Maritime Boundary Delimitation
III. Decisions of International Courts and Tribunals
IV. State Practice
V. Impact of Islands on Maritime Boundary Delimitation
VI. Conclusions
9. Islands and Human Rights
I. Introduction
II. Human Rights Treaties and Islands
III. Human Rights Issues and Islands
IV. Self-Determination
V. Small Island Developing States
VI. Conclusions
10. Islands and Sea-Level Rise
I. Introduction
II. Climate Science
III. Islands and Artificial Islands
IV. Status and Territoriality
V. Archipelagic States
VI. Maritime Entitlements and Maritime Boundaries
VII. Human Rights
VIII. Conclusions
11. A Regime of Islands?
I. Introduction
II. Regimes, Islands and International Law
III. Fragments of a Regime of Islands
IV. A Future Regime of Islands
