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III Points of Substantive Law, Division A: The Law Of The Sea, Ch.II: Maritime Delimitation: Legal and Practical Aspects

From: The Law and Procedure of the International Court of Justice: Fifty Years of Jurisprudence Volume II

Hugh Thirlway

Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Published in print:
21 February 2013
ISBN:
9780199673384

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 05 June 2023

Subject(s):
International courts and tribunals, decisions — Delimitation — Equitable principles — Ex aequo et bono jurisdiction
The maritime areas which may require to be delimited by a judicial decision are the territorial sea, the continental shelf, the exclusive economic zones, and fishery zones. A preliminary question is the degree to which the rules and principles governing delimitation are common to all of these, or are peculiar to a particular category. In terms of the applicable multilateral treaty texts, delimitation of the territorial sea is governed by Article 12 of the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, or by Part II, Section 2 (Articles...
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