Transparency and Predictability in the Maritime Delimitation Process: Reverse-engineering the Somalia-Kenya Adjudicated Boundary

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The article provides a technical and legal analysis of the International Court of Justice's 2021 ruling in the maritime boundary delimitation case between Somalia and Kenya with a particular focus on transparency and predictability. The article reverse-engineers the ICJ's Judgment using recent high-resolution satellite imagery. The Court's decision to reply on a relatively small-scale chart based on surveys well over 50 years old resulted in some problematic choices of base points which have legal, practical and geopolitical consequences.

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