Disappearing Island States in International Law - Hardcover

Grote Stoutenburg, Jenny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004303006 ISBN 13: 9789004303003

Publisher: Brill Nijhoff, 2015

Synopsis

Several low-lying atoll island states are at risk of losing their entire territory due to climate change-induced sea level rise. In Disappearing Island States in International Law, Jenny Grote Stoutenburg examines the most relevant and pressing international legal questions facing threatened island states: at which point would a sovereign state disappear? Who could make that determination? Which legal status would its citizens have? What would happen to the state's maritime entitlements and its international rights and obligations? Does international law protect the international legal personality of states that lose their effective statehood for reasons beyond their control? In answering these questions, the book goes to the root of a fundamental problem of international law: the nature of statehood.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Jenny Grote Stoutenburg, LL.M. (University of Cologne); Maître en Droit (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) is an Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice. She has published various articles on international environmental law and small island states and is a co-editor of the volume Enhancing the Rule of Law through the International Court of Justice (Brill - Nijhoff, 2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9004303006
• ISBN 13: 9789004303003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 504