What is it about?
This article discusses how international tribunals ignore non-western precolonial claims or associations with territorty.
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Why is it important?
This article reveals the methodologies and philosophies invoked by tribunals to suppress claims that are not based on Western modes of territorial acquisition.
Perspectives
This is the first article to study the actual practices of states in the South China Sea where there are on-going disputes over shared resources.
Melissa Loja
University of Hong Kong
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This page is a summary of: The Roots of Historic Title: Non-Western Pre-Colonial Normative Systems and Legal Resolution of Territorial Disputes, Leiden Journal of International Law, July 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0922156514000284.
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