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Borders and International Law: Setting the Stage

Authors : Alice Riccardi, Tommaso Natoli

Published in: Borders, Legal Spaces and Territories in Contemporary International Law

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The chapter aims to provide an overview of the broader context lying at the background of the analyses conducted in this collected volume. It proceeds in three steps. First, it offers a historiography of the notion of the border in international law, from the Roman ages to modernity. It appears that historically the legal concept of the border has undergone continuous transformations determined by the fluctuating purposes attached to it and by the modifications experienced by various socio-political entities. Second, it pinpoints two of the main trends of current international law, namely the increase of boundary disputes and the shift from pure territorial to “functional” borders, providing evidence of both. This follows the fact that also today the border is not an exact place: it is rather a series of spatial limits incessantly changing through which States assert their power, and one may happen to be within or beyond them regardless of where that person is physically located. This makes it necessary for international lawyers to systematically reflect upon the relationship between States’ power, borders and phenomena of closure and openness. The third section accordingly provides a synopsis of the book.

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Inter alia, Anghie (2005); Russel (2001).

For earlier accounts see Khan (2012), pp. 226 ff; Lowe (2007), p. 136.

Ancel (1936), p. 208. Still, Roman mythology evidences the existence of limits meant to exclude, separate or appropriate (e.g. Romulus digging a grove as the founding act of Rome, or the cult of Terminus established by Numa Pompilius at the end of the eighth century B.C. associated to the expression nulli cedo). See Alland (2016), p. 8.

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The jus commune defined the privilegium as an advantage accorded to an individual, a group of individuals or a community. The privilegia might concern very different prerogatives and rights: e.g. it was considered a privilegium the assignment of a monopoly over a given good, the right to issue coins, the exemption from taxes, or the exercise of jurisdiction.

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See Caflisch (2014), p. 20, for whom ‘le trace des frontiers terrestres […] [est] determine par les titres territoriaux existants et les effectivités de part et d’autre.’

As evidenced by the number of international crises emerging from borders’ delimitation disputes occurring from the 1960s to 1980s (e.g. the 1962 China-India, 1963 Algeria-Morocco, 1965 India-Pakistan, 1969 China-USSR and Honduras-Nicaragua, 1977 Ethiopia-Somalia and 1980 Iraq-Iran).

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Cases introduced at the ICJ in the past five years include: in 2018, Relocation of the United States Embassy to Jerusalem (Palestine v USA); in 2017, Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 23 May 2008 in the case concerning Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore) (Malaysia v Singapore) and Land Boundary in the Northern Part of Isla Portillos (Costa Rica v Nicaragua); in 2016, Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v Bolivia); in 2014, Maritime Delimitation in the Indian Ocean (Somalia v Kenya) and Maritime Delimitation in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean (Costa Rica v Nicaragua); in 2013, Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v Colombia), Question of the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf between Nicaragua and Colombia beyond 200 nautical miles from the Nicaraguan Coast (Nicaragua v Colombia) and Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (Bolivia v Chile).

Inter alia see the cases of South Sudan, Kosovo and Palestine.

Inter alia see the current disputes in the South China Sea.

E.g. Chile/Peru, Belize/Guatemala, Morocco/Western Sahara, Russia/Ukraine, Malawi/Tanzania, Israel/Syria, India/Pakistan, China/Japan.

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Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding (2 February 2017), available in English at www.asgi.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ITALY-LIBYA-MEMORANDUM-02.02.2017.pdf. Accessed 8 April 2019. On Italy’s and the European Union’s responsibility for internationally wrongful acts connected to Libya’s gross violations committed against migrants see Pascale (2018) and De Vittor (2018).

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See inter alia: EU-Horn of Africa Migration Route Initiative, Declaration of the Ministerial Conference of the Khartoum Process (Rome, 28 November 2014); Valletta Summit on Migration, Political Declaration (La Valletta, 11–12 November 2015); European Commission, A European Agenda on Migration, COM(2015)240final (Brussels, 13 May 2015).

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Among many other examples, the 1891 Immigration Act adopted by the United States allowed for the opening of an immigrant inspection station in Ellis Island, which was established as an ‘entry fiction’: namely, it was deemed to fictitiously fall outside the actual territory of the United States. Consequently, the XIV Amendment including the due process clause was considered inapplicable, and migrants were thus arbitrarily detained irrespective of due process rights.

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HRC, General Comment No. 36 (2018) on article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the right to life, UN Doc CCPR/C/GC/36 (30 October 2018), para. 22. See also Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Advisory Opinion on the Environment and Human Rights (State Obligations in relation to the Environment in the Context of the Protection and Guarantee of the Rights to Life and to Personal Integrity—Interpretation and Scope of Articles 4(1) and 5(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights), OC-23/17 (15 November 2017), para. 101, where the Court affirmed that ‘[a] efectos de la Convención Americana, cuando ocurre un daño transfronterizo que afecte derechos convencionales, se entiende que las personas cuyos derechos han sido vulnerados se encuentran bajo la jurisdicción del Estado de origen si existe una relación de causalidad entre el hecho que se originó en su territorio y la afectación de los derechos humanos de personas fuera de su territorio.’

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