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Professor Malcolm N. Shaw QC is the Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law at the University of Leicester, and a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge during 2005. He is also a practising barrister with extensive experience in advising on questions of territorial disputes in International Law.
Contents: Introduction: the international law of territory: an overview. Law and Territory in the International System: Territory in international law, M.N. Shaw; Sovereignty, territory and the international lawyer's dilemma, Donald W. Greig. Historical Development: Discovery, symbolic annexation and virtual effectiveness in international law, Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte; The concept of statehood and the acquisition of territory in the 19th century, J.A. Andrews. Modes of Acquisition: Adjudication and adjustment a " international judicial decision and the settlement of territorial and boundary disputes, A.L.W. Munkman; Title to territory: response to a challenge, Georg Schwarzenberger; The acquisition of title to territory by newly emerged states, J.G. Starke; Acquisitive prescription in international law, D.H.N. Johnson. Associated Doctrines: Some observations on the doctrine of continuity and the finality of boundaries, Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad; The doctrine of intertemporal law, T.O. Elias; The scope of acquiescence in international law, I.C. MacGibbon. Force and Territorial Title: What weight conquest?, Stephen M. Schwebel. Maps: Maps as evidence in international boundary disputes: a reappraisal, Guenter Weissberg. Self-Determination and Territorial Integrity: Self-determination versus territorial integrity in decolonization, S.K.N. Blay; Drawing a better line: uti possidetis and the borders of new states, Stephen R. Ratner; Peoples, territorialism and boundaries, Malcolm N. Shaw; Name index.