Conflicting Declarations under the Hague Service Convention amid the Russo-Ukrainian War: Dilemmas and Preliminary Solutions
Year: 2022

The 1965 Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters has been increasingly used by its Member States to demonstrate their territorial claims. Contexts in which States have done so include the Falklands dispute and the Israel-Palestine conflict. This has now arisen in the apex during the Russo-Ukrainian war when conflicting declarations have been formulated by eight States under the Convention. This paper analyses the legal dilemmas brou