Predictability and Flexibility in the Law of Maritime Delimitation

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

• 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

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