Boundaries and Secession in Africa and International Law
Subtitle: Challenging Uti Possidetis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781107117983
Subjects: Customary law, africa; State succession; Africa, history
Description: The Frontier Dispute case and applying uti possidetis to Africa -- The rule of intangibility of inherited frontiers -- The conventional obligation to respect the territorial status quo -- The customary rule of respecting the territorial status quoce -- The changes made in international law by the African custom -- Current justifications for secession in Africa -- Domination as a possible instance for a right to external self-determination -- Towards a right to egalitarian self-determination -- Conclusion