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Japan's East China Sea Ocean Boundaries: What Solutions Can A Confused Legal Environment Provide In A Complex Boundary Dispute?, Kendrick F. Royer
Japan's East China Sea Ocean Boundaries: What Solutions Can A Confused Legal Environment Provide In A Complex Boundary Dispute?, Kendrick F. Royer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Note addresses the ocean boundary delimitation conflict between Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea in the East China Sea. The author considers international law on boundary delimitation and concludes that the law is unclear on delimitations between states within four hundred nautical miles of one another. The International Court of Justice has held that equity is the norm to be applied to boundary delimitation disputes but it has not resolved the competition between the natural prolongation theory of delimitation and a theory based upon the Exclusive Economic Zone. The geology of the East China Sea brings this issue to …