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Canada and Denmark reach agreement on the Lincoln Sea Boundary

January 10, 2013

Jacques Hartmann

Jacques Hartmann is Lecturer in Law, Dundee Law School, Scotland. On 28 November last year Canada and the Kingdom of Denmark announced that they had reached a tentative agreement on the maritime boundary in the Lincoln Sea. The Lincoln Sea is a body of water bordering the Arctic Ocean, north of Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Greenland, which, together with the Faeroe Islands, is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. The Canadian/Danish agreement partly settles long-standing uncertainty over the northern boundary between the two countries, but it does not settle the dispute over Hans Island which is situated right in the middle of a potentially important sea route to the Arctic Ocean. This graphic is for illustrative purposes only. The solid black line is the boundary agreed in the 1973 treaty. The broken black line is the boundary agreed ad referendum. The broken blue lines indicate 200-nautical-mile zones.1) Lincoln Sea; 2) Nares Strait; 3) Baffin Bay 4) Davis Strait ;…

Nicaragua v Columbia: the curious question of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

December 10, 2012

Douglas Guilfoyle

Continental shelf questions have a reputation for being arcane and technical, but an interesting point with implications for offshore resource disputes arose in last month’s ICJ judgement in Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia). First, a certain amount of (potentially dull) technical background needs to be set out, which I’ll simplify as much as possible. Notably, Nicaragua is…

From the North Sea to the Bay of Bengal: Maritime Delimitation at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

March 23, 2012

Irini Papanicolopulu

Last week, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea delivered its judgment in the Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh/Myanmar). Although Bangladesh and Myanmar started negotiations for the delimitation of their maritime boundaries since 1974, when Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan, the boundary…

International Tribunal for the Law of Sea’s First Judgment on Maritime Delimitation

March 16, 2012

Dapo Akande

And in other news . . . the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) also had a first of its own this past Wednesday. ITLOS delivered judgment in its first maritime delimitation case – Dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar in the Bay of Bengal (Bangladesh/Myanmar) (see press release here and judgment…

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A new twist in the South China Sea Arbitration: The Chinese Society of International Law’s Critical Study

May 25, 2018

Douglas Guilfoyle

On Monday 14 May 2018 the Chinese Journal of International Law, an Oxford University Press journal, published an extraordinary 500 page “Critical Study” of the Awards on jurisdiction and the merits in the South China Sea Arbitration between the Philippines and China. Readers will recall the case was brought under the UN Convention on the Law of…

Taking the party line on the South China Sea Arbitration

May 28, 2018

Douglas Guilfoyle

I recently posted here on the extraordinary 500-page “Critical Study” of the Awards in the South China Sea Arbitration published by the Chinese Society of International Law (CSIL) in Oxford University Press’ Chinese Journal of International Law. The piece drew a number of interesting comments, the most interesting from Professor Bing…

Ripples in the East and South China Seas: Aid, ADIZs, Aircraft Carriers, and Arbitration

December 1, 2013

Diane Desierto

In the past few weeks throughout November 2013, various incidents have sharply demonstrated China’s foreign policy preferences in relation to disputes with neighbors over the East and South China Seas (pictured above left, credit), as well as its self-perception of its broader hegemonic role in the Asian region. I recently spoke on regulatory freedom and control…

Sovereignty has “Rock-all” to do with it… or has it? What’s at stake in the recent diplomatic spat between Scotland and Ireland?

July 8, 2019

Richard Collins

Rockall, the tiny, remote, rocky outcrop in the northeast Atlantic – a ghostly peak of an extinct volcano – has periodically appeared in the news at the centre of a longstanding dispute between the UK and Ireland (as well as, more peripherally, Denmark (Faroe Islands) and Iceland too). This dispute has rarely flared up publicly over recent years,…

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Canada and Denmark reach agreement on the Lincoln Sea Boundary

Nicaragua v Columbia: the curious question of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

From the North Sea to the Bay of Bengal: Maritime Delimitation at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

International Tribunal for the Law of Sea’s First Judgment on Maritime Delimitation