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2022•The International Journal of Marine and Coastal LawOpen access

Dispute Settlement in the Law of the Sea: Survey for 2021

Robin Churchill

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Abstract This is the latest in a series of annual surveys in this Journal reviewing dispute settlement in the law of the sea, both under Part XV of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and outside the framework of the Convention. The most significant developments during 2021 were a judgment of a Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea finding that it had jurisdiction to delimit a maritime boundary between Mauritius and the Maldives and a judgment of the International Court of Justice delimiting the maritime boundary between Somalia and Kenya.

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Abstract This is the latest in a series of annual surveys in this Journal reviewing dispute settlement in the law of the sea, both under Part XV of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and outside the framework of the Convention. The most significant developments during 2021 were a judgment of a Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea finding that it had jurisdiction to delimit a maritime boundary between Mauritius and the Maldives and a judgment of the International Court of Justice delimiting the maritime boundary between Somalia and Kenya.

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Abstract This is the latest in a series of annual surveys in this Journal reviewing dispute settlement in the law of the sea, both under Part XV of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and outside the framework of the Convention. The most significant developments during 2021 were a judgment of a Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea finding that it had jurisdiction to delimit a maritime boundary between Mauritius and the Maldives and a judgment of the International Court of Justice delimiting the maritime boundary between Somalia and Kenya.

Key concepts: Law of the sea, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Law, Maritime boundary, Tribunal, Jurisdiction, International law, International court

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