Coalter Lathrop- Master of Laws
- Senior Lecturer at Duke University
Coalter Lathrop
- Master of Laws
- Senior Lecturer at Duke University
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Introduction
I work at the intersection of law and geography as a litigator and scholar. My expertise and research interests include law of the sea, history of public international law, international environmental law, third-state interests in judicial proceedings, maritime boundary delimitation, continental shelf delineation, seabed resources and territorial sovereignty disputes.
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A review and critique of international courts' and tribunals' approach to the so-called "first stage" of maritime boundary delimitation.
As the legal expression of the coast, baselines, in their many forms, are the features through which coastal states generate derivative title to maritime areas, and, as such, baselines are a foundational component of coastal state maritime jurisdiction. This chapter explores the history and role of baselines in the law of the sea.
Litigating International Law Disputes provides a fresh understanding of why states resort to international adjudication or arbitration to resolve international law disputes. A group of leading scholars and practitioners discern the reasons for the use of international litigation and other modes of dispute settlement by examining various substantive...
In the extended continental shelf game, States have two goals: (1) to maximize, bolster and protect their claims to extended continental shelf with respect to both the delineation of outer limits and the delimitation of shelf boundaries with opposite or adjacent States, and (2) to receive the Commission’s imprimatur on their outer limit claim made...
The ninth volume in the comprehensive reference series for international adjudication and state practice concerning maritime boundary delimitation.
The eighth volume in the comprehensive reference series for international adjudication and state practice concerning maritime boundary delimitation.
On land, the political map of the world has been relatively stable since the end of World War II: with some significant exceptions, most countries are, spatially, as they were in 1945 or shortly thereafter. Land borders are mostly set, and the major state-to-state territorial disputes that persist today are—again, with some notable exceptions—dispu...
Between 2008–2018 the International Law Association ( ILA ) Committee on Baselines under the International Law of the Sea produced two reports on the normal baseline (2012) and straight and archipelagic baselines (2018). The Sofia Report (2012) is organised around the interpretation of Article 5 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of t...
The seventh volume in the comprehensive reference series for international adjudication and state practice concerning maritime boundary delimitation.
International Court of Justice judgment on free navigation and fishing on a boundary river
Permanent Court of Arbitration award on the delimitation of an internal land boundary
Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine) - Volume 103 Issue 3 - Coalter G. Lathrop
The international transboundary groundwater resource regime will continue to develop as a series of bilateral or regional agreements related to specific resource pools often referred to as aquifers or aquifer systems. Unlike the emerging climate change regime, the groundwater regime will not, and need not, become global in scope. This prediction wi...
Report on Malaysia/Singapore, decided May 23, 2008 before the International Court of Justice
Report on ruling of the International Court of Justice, December 13, 2007, on preliminary objections to jurisdiction in the territorial and maritime dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia.
Report on Nicaragua v. Honduras, decided October 8, 2007 before the International Court of Justice.
Report on Japan v. Russian Federation, decided on August 6, 2007, before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).
Tripoint issues arise in maritime boundary delimitation where the maritime areas of three coastal states converge and overlap. Where this trilateral geographic relationship exists, so too does the potential for a tripoint at which three bilateral maritime boundaries could intersect. The trilateral geographic relationship, although it need not neces...
The delimitation award of the Tribunal in the Second Phase of the Arbitration between Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia is analyzed in light of the terms of reference establishing the Tribunal and the positions of the Parties throughout the delimitation phase of the Arbitration. The application of the principles of international law governi...
The technical aspects of delimiting, depicting, and recovering international maritime boundaries are discussed. Potential sources of error in the delimitation, depiction, and recovery of boundaries are exposed, and recommendations are made for avoiding errors in the future. Recent technological advances in the field of international maritime bounda...
