Unpacking Sovereignty and Self-determination in ITLOS and the ICC: A Bundle of Rights?

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Volker Roeben is Professor of Energy Law, International Law and Global Regulation at the University of Dundee, as well as a visiting Professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, docent at the University of Turku and adjunct Professor at the University of Houston.

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Unpacking Sovereignty and Self-determination in ITLOS and the ICC: A Bundle of Rights?

March 4, 2021

Volker Roeben

Sava Jankovic

In a short space of time, two international courts have handed down rather dramatic decisions related to the contested issues of self-determination and sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago and Palestine, which have, for a very long time now, been under the UK and Israeli occupation respectively. On 28 January 2021, an ITLOS Special Chamber found…