"I had the honour of chairing the International Law Commission in 2025, when it adopted the final report of the Study Group on sea-level rise in relation to international law. Frances Anggadi's perfectly-timed monograph tackles the questions within the scope of this report with clarity and confidence, based on nuanced engagement with a remarkably broad array of State practice, and an appreciation of stakes, both for public international law and the affected communities and individuals." -- Professor Martins Paparinskis, Professor of Public International Law at UCL"Anggadi's Sea-Level Rise and the Legal Stability of Maritime Zones is a major contribution to contemporary law of the sea scholarship. Methodologically ambitious and doctrinally sophisticated, the book revisits debates on baselines and maritime entitlements by grounding interpretation of UNCLOS in a rich and systematically assembled body of State practice, especially domestic legislation. In doing so, it moves the discussion beyond the familiar binary of 'ambulatory' versus 'fixed' baselines and demonstrates the Convention's capacity to evolve through interpretative practice. The book's careful reconstruction of legal stability across spatial, temporal, and status dimensions offers an original and compelling framework. It will be an enduring work in its field." -- Professor Douglas Guilfoyle, Professor of International Law and Security, University of New South Wales.
Sea-Level Rise and the Legal Stability of Maritime Zones