Towards the Conceptualisation of Maritime Delimitation: Legal and Technical Aspects of Political Process
In: Publications on Ocean Development Ser.
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- Table of Contents -- General Introduction -- I. DELIMITATION LAW IN THE LOSC: THREE DECADES OF DEVELOPMENT -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 1 - The 1958 Conventions -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The ILC Pursuit of Normative Standards -- 1.2.a) Pre-1958 State Practice -- 1.2.b) First Drafts -- 1.2.b)(i) The Continental Shelf -- 1.2.b)(ii) The Territorial Sea -- 1.2.c) Subsequent Development of a General Substantive Rule -- 1.3. The First Conference on the Law of the Sea -- 1.3.a) Draft Articles -- 1.3.b) The Debates in the Conference -- 1.3.c) Ratio Legis of the Delimitation Rules -- 1.3.c)(i) Equidistance and Special Circumstances -- 1.3.c)(ii) Historic Title -- 1.3.c)(iii) Delimitation of the Contiguous Zone -- 1.3.c)(iv) Oppositeness and Adjacency in Continental Shelf Delimitation -- 1.3.c)(v) The 'Procedural Element' -- Chapter 2 - Relevant Case Law Pre-1982 -- 2.1. The Selected Case Law -- 2.2. The Grisbadarna Arbitration -- 2.2.a) Overview: The Dispute and the Award -- 2.2.b) Critical Analysis -- 2.3. The North Sea Continental Shelf Cases -- 2.3.a) Overview of the Judgment -- 2.3.a)(i) The Dispute -- 2.3.a)(ii) The Reasoning -- 2.3.a)(iii) A Brief Initial Comment -- 2.3.b) The Assessment of Customary Law -- 2.3.b)(i) Summary of State Practice Post-1958 -- 2.3.b)(ii) The Court's Approach -- 2.3.c) The Rule of Article 6 versus Natural Prolongation -- 2.3.d) Normative Standards of Delimitation -- 2.4. The Anglo/French Arbitration -- 2.4.a) Overview -- 2.4.a)(i) The Dispute -- 2.4.a)(ii) The Award -- 2.4.b) Some Points of Contrast with the North Sea Cases -- 2.4.b)(i) A Different Task -- 2.4.b)(ii) The Clarification of Certain Issues -- 2.4.b)(iii) The Contribution to International Law -- 2.4.c) Article 6 of the CS Convention -- 2.4.c)(i) Interpretation.