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View article: Shadings of Nuance: Contextualizing a “Convergence of Opinion” Regarding a River Located in the Imaginarium of the Western Mind
Shadings of Nuance: Contextualizing a “Convergence of Opinion” Regarding a River Located in the Imaginarium of the Western Mind Open
Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) makes it clear that a primary function of the Court is to decide disputes submitted to it. From jurisprudential and practical perspectives, debates arise over the mea…
View article: Water Rights and Hydro-Egoism: Endogenous Hegemony and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Water Rights and Hydro-Egoism: Endogenous Hegemony and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Open
In 2011, Ethiopia surprised the international community and its two downstream riparian neighbors, Sudan and Egypt, when it unilaterally announced plans to construct the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile tributary.In …
View article: Sclerotic soft law: understanding the role of the Minsk group in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Sclerotic soft law: understanding the role of the Minsk group in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Open
The decades-old dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh has been reignited, with forces fighting for the two sides engaged in intense fighting since the end of September. Christopher R. Rossi writes that …
View article: Treaty of Tordesillas Syndrome: Sovereignty ad Absurdum and the South China Sea Arbitration
Treaty of Tordesillas Syndrome: Sovereignty ad Absurdum and the South China Sea Arbitration Open
Cornell International Law Journal: Vol. 50 : No. 2 , Article 3. The South China Sea is the fifth largest body of water in the world. It accounts for five trillion dollars in annual commercial activity involving a third of maritime traffic …
View article: Norway's Imperiled Sovereignty Claim over Svalbard's Adjacent Waters
Norway's Imperiled Sovereignty Claim over Svalbard's Adjacent Waters Open
The invasive but highly profitable snow crab has made its way into the waters of the High Arctic, precipitating a direct confrontation between the EU and Norway over the interpretation of the 1920 Svalbard Treaty. Norway claims the Treaty …
View article: The Migingo Island Dispute between Kenya and Uganda
The Migingo Island Dispute between Kenya and Uganda Open
Migingo is an islet in Lake Victoria, half the size of a football field. For most of its history, it had no significance. Recent adulterations to the lake’s water table in an age of climate change and to its biology in the Anthropocene age…
View article: The Northern Sea Route and The Seaward Extension of Uti Possidetis (Juris)
The Northern Sea Route and The Seaward Extension of Uti Possidetis (Juris) Open
Once considered impassable due to icebound conditions of the High Arctic, receding ice attributed to climate change and projections of ice-free polar seasons in coming decades may soon make the Northeast Passage a commercially viable condu…
View article: Impaled on Morton's Fork: Kosovo, Crimea, and the Sui Generis Circumstance
Impaled on Morton's Fork: Kosovo, Crimea, and the Sui Generis Circumstance Open
Since NATO's intervention in Kosovo, the invocation of sui generis, or unique circumstances, has been used to justify circumventing international law on the use of force and state secession. In this Article, Professor Christopher Rossi add…
View article: Jus Ad Bellum in the Shadow of the 20th Century
Jus Ad Bellum in the Shadow of the 20th Century Open
A discussion of the attitudinal change over the course of the twentieth century regarding the use of force for the recovery of contract debt.
View article: A Unique International Problem’: The Svalbard Treaty, Equal Enjoyment, and Terra Nullius: Lessons of Territorial Temptation from History
A Unique International Problem’: The Svalbard Treaty, Equal Enjoyment, and Terra Nullius: Lessons of Territorial Temptation from History Open
The 1920 Svalbard Treaty conferred full and absolute sovereignty on Norway but paradoxically limited that sovereignty by conferring on states party to the treaty equal enjoyment and liberty of access provisions on Svalbard and in its terri…