International Law

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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, and the Chamber directed the ...

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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 dependence
changes.
The Court's judgement ...

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