@article{2022:arvaloramrez:constituti,
title = {Constitutions Challenging the International Court of Justice’s Jurisdiction to Adjudicate Territorial Disputes in Latin America},
year = {2022},
note = {Latin America has shown an increment in litigation before the
international Court of Justice (ICJ) in cases related to territorial
and maritime delimitation disputes. The ICJ has been their
‘natural’ jurisdiction thanks to broad competence clauses included
in regional dispute settlement treaties such as the Pact of Bogotá.
As a consequence of this increased litigation and the variety of
results attained in judgements by the ICJ defining boundaries and
sovereign rights around Latin America, a strange behaviour has become
common place between the litigating States when they are not pleased
with the result. Several Latin American States have opposed their
constitutions to the ICJ judgements, invoking a particular
constitutional clause, common in the regional historic embrace of the
uti possidetis iuris principle, known as the ‘constitutional
territory clause’.},
journal = {Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law},
pages = {425--448},
author = {Arévalo-Ramírez, Walter},
volume = {82},
number = {2}
}