LAWS704 What legal challenges does the disappearance of states due to climate change create for the traditional concept of statehood under international law?

Question

  1. What legal challenges does the disappearance of states due to climate change create for the traditional concept of statehood under international law?
  2. Discuss the relevance of the declarative constitutive theories to statehood to this issue specifically?
  3. How would a New Zealand specific perspective to sources of international law and state obligations contribute to producing an ICJ Advisory Opinion that is beneficial to small island pacific nations including Vanuatu?

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