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Remarks by Nilüfer Oral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2021

Nilüfer Oral
Nilüfer Oral*
Affiliation:
Director of the Center for International Law of the National University of Singapore. Professor of the Istanbul Bilgi University Law Faculty. Member of the International Law Commission and Co-chair of the Study Group on sea-level rise in relation to international law.
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Extract

I would like to begin by first acknowledging and thanking Bogdan Aurescu, my Co-chair and co-author of the International Law Commission (ILC) Study Group on Sea-Level Rise First Issues Paper on the law of the sea whose contribution is very much part of this presentation.

Type
Addressing the Law of the Sea Challenges of Sea-Level Rise
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 114 , 2020 , pp. 393 - 396
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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References

1 First Issues Paper by Bogdan Aurescu and Nilüfer Oral, Co-chairs of the Study Group on sea-level rise in relation to international law (2020), available at https://legal.un.org/docs/?symbol=A/CN.4/740.

2 See paragraphs 2–9 of UNCLOS Article 47 for the additional conditions.

3 For an analysis of some claims (U.S. State Department), see Kevin Baumert & Brian Melchoir, A Practice of Archipelagic States: A Study of Studies, 46 Ocean Dev. & Int'l L. 60 (2015). Indonesia, the Philippines, the Bahamas, the Seychelles, the Maldives, Kiribati, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu.

4 Submission of the Republic of Maldives, forwarded through Note Verbale No. 2019/UN/N/50 of December 31, 2019, at 14.

5 Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions Between Qatar and Bahrain (Qatar v. Bahr.), Judgment, 2001 ICJ Rep. 40, 97, para. 185 (Mar. 16). See also Dubai-Sharjah Border Arbitration, 91 ILR 543 (1981).

6 Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicar. v. Colom.), 2012 ICJ Rep. 624, paras. 139, 177 (Nov. 19).

7 Id., para. 37.

8 South China Sea Arbitration Between the Republic of the Philippines and the People's Republic of China, Award (Perm. Ct. Arb. July 12, 2016).

9 Kate Parlett, Jurisdiction of the Arbitral Tribunal in Philippines v. China Under UNCLOS and in the Absence of China, 110 AJIL Unbound 266 (2016).

10 South China Sea Arbitration, supra note 8, para. 483.

11 Id., para 483.

12 Id., para. 549 (emphasis added).

13 UN Charter, Art. 96.

14 Request for Advisory Opinion Submitted by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission, Advisory Opinion, 2015 ITLOS Rep. 4, para. 60 (Apr. 2).

15 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Art. 31 (3)(a)(b), May 23, 1969, 1155 UNTS 331.

16 Indonesia, Micronesia, Peru, Romania, Tonga, the Pacific Small Island Developing States (Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu. and Vanuatu). See also Statement of the Pacific Small Island Developing States 6th Committee, available at http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/16154559/marshall-islands-on-behalf-of-pacific-small-island-developing-states-.pdf.

17 Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-Third Sess., Supp. No. 10, para. 369, UN Doc. A/73/10 (2018).

18 This number takes into account statements made by regional groups. During the Sixth Committee meeting in 2019, forty-nine delegations, including regional groups, supported placing the topic sea-level rise in relation to international law on the ILC work program. First Issues Paper, supra note 1, para. 19.

19 Draft Conclusions on Identification of Customary International Law (with Commentaries), 2018 ILC Y.B., Vol. II, pt. 2.

20 Report of the International Law Commission, Seventy-First Sess. , ch. III, paras. 31–33, UN Doc. A/74/10 (2019).