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2 Portuguese Y.B. L. Sea 1 (2025)

handle is hein.journals/ptgsyrk2 and id is 1 raw text is: PORTUGUESE YEARBOOK OF THE LAW OF THE SEA 2 (2025) 1-4 BRILL brill.com/pyls Editorial In 2025, sea level rise was at the heart of the activities of the IPDM - Por- tuguese Institute of the Law of the Sea, including its annual conference and summer school. These two events brought together international leading experts on sea level rise and international law, as well as many participants from all over the world. The IPDM also hosted a meeting to discuss the international legal impli- cations of sea level rise, which was attended by several distinguished mem- bers of the former International Law Association Committee on Sea Level Rise (2012-2024) and the International Law Commission Study Group on Sea-level Rise in Relation to International Law. These events were held back-to-back in Cascais, with the support of the Municipality of Cascais, the Mirpuri Foundation, and the Lisbon Public Law Research Center of the Institute of Legal and Political Sciences at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Considering the excellent discussions held during the aforementioned events, the Editors of the Portuguese Yearbook of the Law of the Sea decided that the 2025 issue should be dedicated exclusively to the international legal implications of sea level rise. Consequently, the second issue of the Yearbook offers readers a unique collection of eleven outstanding in-depth scholarly articles written by the foremost international experts on sea level rise, to whom the Editors are extremely grateful for their excellent contributions. The Editors sincerely hope that this issue may contribute to promote and enhance further scholarship in this important topic. This issue of the Yearbook also includes a report by Fernando Loureiro Bastos on the project undertaken by the Lisbon Public Law Research Center, entitled Preparing for sea level rise: coping with climate change, rearranging State territory and searching for mechanisms to deal with conflicts. This groundbreaking project resulted in many important outputs that emphasized the progressive development of international law regarding the creation of an international legal regime to deal with sea level rise. Published with license by Koninklijke Brill BV DOI:10.1163/29501636-20262001 © VASCO BECKER-WEINBERG, 2026 | ISSN: 2950-1636 (online) This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.