Non-State Actors' Rights in Maritime Delimitation

Marianthi Pappa is Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham. She specializes in international law, ocean governance, energy and natural resources law and space law. She also provides workshops on boundary disputes and energy issues for governmental and business organizations.

• Preface; Table of cases; Table of treaties and conventions; Other international instruments; Introduction; 1. Private rights in areas of uncertain jurisdiction; 2. The divergent role of private rights in land and maritime delimitation; 3. The uneven preservation of reallocated private rights on land and at sea; 4. Reassessing the asymmetry; 5. Reaching an equilibrium; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

'Individual human-beings, private businesses, not for-profit entitles and communities are often the primary victims (and at times beneficiaries) of inter-state territorial disputes and ensuing changes. Dr Marianthi Pappa's book superbly articulate the failure of international law to meaningfully address the rights and concerns of these private actors related to territorial alterations and challenges the state-centred approach to boundary delimitation and demarcation laws and practices. The book which advocates for a people-centred approach to boundary issues makes an original contribution to the field of the law of territory and general international law more generally.' Zeray Yihdego, University of Aberdeen