An Irish Claim to Rockall

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Ríán Derrig is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Center for Global Constitutionalism at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. His research is in the history and theory of international law, the law of the sea and of territory

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An Irish Claim to Rockall

January 14, 2021

Ríán Derrig

Due to Brexit, dispute has again arisen between the UK and Ireland over Rockall, a small rock in the North-East Atlantic Ocean, and its surrounding waters. On January 4th a Marine Scotland patrol boat stopped and boarded an Irish fishing trawler, forcing it to leave waters within 12 nautical miles of the rock. Scotland asserted the UK…