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<p>This article interrogates the Westphalian requirement of territoriality as a prerequisite for statehood, proposing a reconstituted model of non-territorial legal personality to address the existential threat of climate-induced displacement. Utilizing a TWAIL-informed critique, the study identifies the geographic trap within the Montevideo Convention as a colonial artifact that facilitates the legal erasure of vanishing island nations and displaced polities. By decoupling legal subjectivity from physical soil, the research reinterprets Article 1 of the ICCPR to frame the continuity of the polity as a functional necessity for the protection of collective human rights. Drawing on precedents from the ICJ and UNGA regarding governments-in-exile and observer status, the paper argues for the recognition of Necessary Subjects within international law. It provides a doctrinal blueprint for a post-territorial legal order, ensuring that the erosion of sovereign land does not result in the termination of the human rights regime for the dispossessed.</p>

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Ecological Self-Determination: Legal Personality, Climate Dissolution, and the Rights of Non-Territorial Peoples

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    2026年5月11日

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  • Rawnak Miraj Ul Azam,
  • Robayet Ferdous Syed,
  • Ashiqur Rahman,
  • Kazi Tamrin Rashed,
  • Ishtiak Abdullah,
  • MD. Abdullah- Almuti

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This article interrogates the Westphalian requirement of territoriality as a prerequisite for statehood, proposing a reconstituted model of non-territorial legal personality to address the existential threat of climate-induced displacement. Utilizing a TWAIL-informed critique, the study identifies the geographic trap within the Montevideo Convention as a colonial artifact that facilitates the legal erasure of vanishing island nations and displaced polities. By decoupling legal subjectivity from physical soil, the research reinterprets Article 1 of the ICCPR to frame the continuity of the polity as a functional necessity for the protection of collective human rights. Drawing on precedents from the ICJ and UNGA regarding governments-in-exile and observer status, the paper argues for the recognition of Necessary Subjects within international law. It provides a doctrinal blueprint for a post-territorial legal order, ensuring that the erosion of sovereign land does not result in the termination of the human rights regime for the dispossessed.