Predictability and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation: (Studies in International Law)

This fully revised new edition offers a comprehensive picture of the law of maritime delimitation, incorporating all new cases and State practice in this field. As with all types of law, the law of maritime delimitation should possess a degree of predictability. On the other hand, as maritime delimitation cases differ, flexible considerations of geographical and non-geographical factors are also required in order to achieve equitable results. How, then, is it possible to ensure predictability while taking into account a number of diverse factors in order to achieve an equitable result? This is the question at the heart of the law of maritime delimitation. This book explores a well-balanced legal framework that reconciles predictability and flexibility in the law of maritime delimitation by looking at three aspects of the question: first it reviews the evolution of the law of maritime delimitation; second, it undertakes a comparative study of the case law and State practice; and third, it critically assesses the law of maritime delimitation in its current form.

Table of Contents:
Brief Contents 1. Preliminary Considerations PART I THE EVOLUTION OF THE LAW OF MARITIME DELIMITATION: OPPOSITION OF TWO BASIC APPROACHES 2. Law of Maritime Delimitation Prior to the 1958 Geneva Conventions: Emergence of Two Approaches 3. The 1958 Geneva Conventions and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 4. The Methodology of Maritime Delimitation in the Jurisprudence I: Continental Shelf Delimitation 5. The Methodology of Maritime Delimitation in the Jurisprudence II: Single/Coincident Maritime Boundaries PART II COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE CASE LAW AND STATE PRACTICE 6. Predictability in the Law of Maritime Delimitation: The Applicability of the Equidistance Method at the First Stage of Delimitation 7. Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation I: Geographical Factors 8. Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation II: Non-Geographical Factors PART III BALANCE BETWEEN PREDICTABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY IN THE LAW OF MARITIME DELIMITATION 9. Legal Framework Reconciling Predictability and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation 10. General Conclusion

About the Author :
Yoshifumi Tanaka is Professor of Law at the University of Copenhagen.

Review :
It may well however have a broader value and usefulness, as a study of the possibilities of reconciling predictability with flexibility in a particularly difficult context, that will, …, serve as a guide when such a reconciliation is required in other fields of law It insightfully depicts almost all the key subjects relating to maritime delimitation, utilising the relevant case law to illustrate the arguments that are made. For those with a deep interest in this topic, it is evident that this book should be included in the list of must-read books dealing with maritime delimitation.