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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Boundaries

Eirik Bjorge, Mamadou Hébié

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
July 2024

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 10 December 2024

Subject(s):
Colonization / Decolonization — Secession — Sovereignty — Customary international law — General principles of international law — Arbitral tribunals — Maritime boundaries — State practice — Boundaries

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 Boundaries are, still in the interconnected world of today, ‘the persistent and the preferred paraphernalia of international political life’ (Brownlie [1993] 137, 138). It is no surprise that the delimitation of the territorial scope of States by means of boundaries remains of great significance in a legal system which has made the ‘principle of the exclusive competence of the State in regard to its own territory … the point of departure in settling most questions that concern international relations’ (Island of Palmas [Netherlands/United States] [1928] 838;...
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