Equitable Principles of Maritime Boundary Delimitation

Thomas Cottier is Full Professor of European and International Economic Law at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and the Managing Director of the World Trade Institute. Much of his professional work has been dedicated to international economic law, in particular international trade regulation, working in the field both as an academic and a negotiator and chair and member of WTO panels.

• Equity revisited: an introduction; Part I. Context: The Enclosure of the Seas: 1. The silent revolution; 2. The new maritime zones: evolution and legal foundations; 3. Distributive effects of the enclosure movement: an assessment of global equity; Part II. The New Boundaries: 4. Approaches to delimitation; 5. State practice; 6. Judicial and conciliatory settlements; 7. An assessment of customary law; Part III. Delimitation Based on Equity: 8. The rule of equity; 9. Conceptual issues and the context of equity; 10. Justiciable standards of equity; 11. The methodology of judicial boundary delimitation; 12. The role of equity in negotiations.