International Court of Justice and decolonisation new directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : decolonisation and the international court of justice : new directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion / Thomas Burri and Jamie Trinidad -- Chagos, custom, and the interpretation of UN General Assembly resolutions / James Summers -- Reflections on the treatment of General Assembly resolutions in the Chagos Advisory Opinion / Stephen Allen -- The Chagos Advisory Opinion and the principle of consent to adjudication / Zeno Crespi Reghizzi -- Two takes on Chagos - reconciling the advisory opinion with the res judicata effect of the UNCLOS arbitral award / Johannes Hendrik Fahner -- State responsibility in advisory proceedings : thoughts on judicial propriety and multilateralism in the Chagos opinion / Fernando Lusa Bordin -- Peremptory norms in the advisory opinion of the international court of justice on the decolonization of Mauritius and the Chagos Archipelago / Antoni Pigrau -- Reflections on the United Kingdom's assertion of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago in the wake of the Chagos Advisory Opinion / Chris Monaghan -- The Chagos marine protected area / Sue Farran -- Human rights and the Chagos Advisory Opinion / Irini Papanicolopulu and Thomas Burri -- Heightened scrutiny of colonial consent according to the Chagos Advisory Opinion : Pandora's box reopened? / Mohor Fajdiga, Ula Aleksandra Kos, Gregor Oprčkal, Anže Mediževec, Pia Novak, Ana Samobor, Miha Plahutnik, Anže Kimovec, Urša Demšar, Vid Drole, Hana Šerbec -- Chagos and the perplexities of the law of treaties / Peter H Sand -- Prospect of the Chagos Advisory Opinion and the subsequent UN General Assembly resolution helping resolve the future of the Chagos Archipelago and of its former inhabitants : a political perspective / David Snoxell -- Reflections on the human tragedy underlying the Chagos case and the way forward / Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer.

"The separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, and its setting aside by the UK 'for defence purposes',1 was the precursor to a human tragedy. The covert expulsion of the Chagossians from their homeland in the years that followed has been described as 'unhappy - indeed, in many respects, disgraceful' (by one of the UK's most senior judges),2 'sordid' and 'morally indefensible' (by a former British Foreign Secretary),3 and 'shameful and wrong' (by counsel for the UK in the International Court of Justice)"--