The Succession of States in Matters of Territorial and Border Treaties in the Light of the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice
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This article aims to discuss the effects and consequences of the succession of States regarding international treaties; specifically, regarding the border and territorial regimes built by such documents. For that matter, using the deductive method o, we divide the present study into two parts. First, following a descriptive procedure of analysis and from the use of bibliographic and documental research techniques we intend to carry out a broad study of the theories that guide the succession effects of treaties in cases of state separation, that is, the continuity theory and the tabula rasa principle. Then, following an analytic procedure of analysis, we aim at objectively and respectively verifying the territorial and border regimes from a study of the cases Gabdikovo-Nagymaros and Lybia vs. Chad before the International Court of Justice, pointing to provisions that could be made to borders and territories treaties regarding successor States. In the end, it is concluded that, although the tabula rasa theory is used as an exception to the principle of continuity of State binding, it is still applied when referring to treaties in matters of borders and territories, although its application is not free from criticism.
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