Self-Determination in Disputed Colonial Territories

Analyzes the role of self-determination and territorial integrity in some of the most difficult decolonization cases.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Territorial integrity and the limits of self-determination: paragraph 6 of the Colonial Declaration; 3. Territorial integrity, irredentist claims, and the identification of self-determination Units; 4. Is there a 'colonial enclaves' exception to the self-determination rule?; 5. Overall conclusions.

About the author

Jamie Trinidad is a Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge and of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2001, and the Bar of Gibraltar in 2005. He holds postgraduate degrees in international law and international relations from the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.

Summary

Self-Determination in Disputed Colonial Territories addresses the relationship between self-determination and territorial integrity in some of the most difficult decolonization cases in international law, focusing on historical cases as well as those that remain very much alive today.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Trinidad, Jamie (University of Cambridge) Trinidad
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781108418188
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41818-8
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, International Law, Political structure & processes, Public International Law, Constitution: government & the state, Constitutional & administrative law