Analysis Of International Law

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d'etat, the "interests of the state", and aims to serve the state, as
well as protect the state by giving its rights and duties. This is
done through treaties and other consensual engagements which are
legally binding.

The case-law of the ICJ is an important aspect of the UN's
contribution to the development of international law. It's judgements
and advisory opinions permeates into the international legal community
not only through its decisions as such but through the wider
implications of its methodology and reasoning.

The successful resolution of the border dispute between
Burkina Faso and Mali in the 1986 Frontier Dispute case illustrates
the utility of judicial decision as a means of settlement in
territorial disputes. The case was submitted to a Chamber of the ICJ
pursuant to a special agreement concluded by the parties in 1983. In
December 1985, while written submissions were being prepared,
hostilities broke out in the disputed area. A cease-fire was agreed, ...

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as the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Convention of 24 January 1959, as
well as such other agreements as may be reached in the matter in the
course of further negotiation.

The Court also held that the concept of preferential rights in
fisheries is not static. This is not to say that the preferential
rights of a coastal State in a special situation are a static concept,
in the sense that the degree of the coastal State's preference is to
be considered as for ever at some given moment. On the contrary, the
preferential rights are a function of the exceptional dependence of
such a coastal State on the fisheries in adjacent waters and may,
therefore, vary as the extent of that ...

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