{"id":5470,"date":"2025-10-31T03:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsulawreview.org\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2025-10-31T04:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:43:35","slug":"carved-in-charts-not-sand-the-icjs-stance-on-preservation-of-baselines-in-its-advisory-opinion-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bsulawreview.org\/en\/volumes-en\/volume-11\/volume-11-2\/carved-in-charts-not-sand-the-icjs-stance-on-preservation-of-baselines-in-its-advisory-opinion-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Carved in Charts, Not Sand: The ICJ&#8217;s Stance on Preservation of Baselines in Its Advisory Opinion on\u00a0Climate\u00a0Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<cite>11 Baku St. U. L.Rev. 196 (2025)<\/cite>\n<br>\n<cite>Article language: English.<\/cite>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>Climate-induced sea-level rise poses an unprecedented challenge to the fundamental structure of the law of the sea, particularly regarding the legal status of baselines. The debate between \u201cambulatory\u201d baselines that shift with changing coastlines and \u201cfixed\u201d baselines that remain static despite physical alterations has emerged as a critical legal question with implications for small island developing states. As coastal recession threatens the location of maritime zones, the international community has faced an urgent need to clarify a legally valid route between the polarised stances. <br>This Article employs the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties interpretative framework to conduct an analysis of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea \u2013 the article setting the scene \u2013 to determine the favourable approach. Furthermore, after analysing the International Court of Justice's recent Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, this paper accentuates the drawbacks in the evaluation of the Court under the veil of ostensibly evolutionary steps concerning baselines and emphasizes potential routes that would be favored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bsulawreview.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/11BSULawRev2.3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download: PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 Baku St. U. L.Rev. 196 (2025) Article language: English. 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