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Twenty-five years ago, in this Journal, Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, and Shelley Wright argued that the structures of international law "privilege men." As shown in Table 1, which summarizes data from a forthcoming article, on nine of twelve international courts of varied size, subject-matter jurisdiction, and global and regional membership, women made up 20 percent or less of the bench in mid 2015. On many of these courts, the percentage of women on the bench has stayed constant, vacillated, or even declined over time. Women made up a lower percentage of the bench in mid 2015 than in previous years on two-thirds of the courts surveyed.

On November 19, 2012, the International Court of Justice rendered its
judgment in a dispute involving territorial and maritime claims raised by
Nicaragua against Colombia in the Caribbean Sea. The Court considered Nicaragua's
requests for a declaration of Nicaraguan sovereignty over seven disputed maritime
features and delimitation of a single maritime boundary between the continental
shelves and exclusive economic zones appertaining to Nicaragua and Colombia. The
Court awarded all disputed territory to Colombia and delimited the maritime
boundary between the states' continental shelves and exclusive economic zones by
using a novel mix of weighted base points, geodetic lines, parallels of latitude,
and enclaving.