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- Title
Competing over the continental shelf: the legal versus the geophysical entitlements.
- Authors
Kantor, Benjamin Salas; Torres, Carolina Valdivia
- Abstract
For the past decades, international courts and tribunals have eluded the question of whether a State's entitlement to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles (nm) may extend within 200 nm of another State. The opacity around this question steered the International Court of Justice to surprisingly divide its oral proceedings in the pending dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia, so that it could address this legal predicament first. In similar circumstances, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea asked Mauritius and The Maldives to deal with the same question. While this is not the first time an international court or tribunal is asked to delimit a continental shelf beyond 200 nm, it will be the first where the 'legal' and the 'geophysical' entitlements enshrined in Article 76(1) of UNCLOS face each other. This article examines the current state of international law and proposes that the overlap between both entitlements is legally permissible, but the 'legal' entitlement enjoys further normative strength and will guide the equitable delimitation of the continental shelf.
- Subjects
NICARAGUA; MAURITIUS; COLOMBIA; CONTINENTAL shelf; INTERNATIONAL courts; INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice; INTERNATIONAL Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; LAW of the sea; INTERNATIONAL law; MARITIME boundaries; MARITIME law
- Publication
Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
2040-3585
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnlids/idac031