Predictability and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation

Yoshifumi Tanaka is Professor of Law at the University of Copenhagen.

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

• Brief Contents1. Preliminary Considerations PART ITHE EVOLUTION OF THE LAW OF MARITIME DELIMITATION: OPPOSITION OF TWO BASIC APPROACHES2. 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 IICOMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE CASE LAW AND STATE PRACTICE6. 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 IIIBALANCE BETWEEN PREDICTABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY IN THE LAW OF MARITIME DELIMITATION9. Legal Framework Reconciling Predictability and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation 10. General Conclusion