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| ISBN-13: | 9781849462655 |
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| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date: | 10/16/2014 |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d) |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements v
Table of Cases xiii
Table of Legislation xvii
Introduction 1
I Background 1
II The Chagos Islanders and International Law 4
1 The Chagossian Litigation in the English Courts 10
I Introduction 10
II Background 11
III UK Public Law 12
IV Bancoult 1 13
V The Chagos Islanders Case 14
VI Withdrawing the Public Law Right of Abode 17
VII Bancoult 2: The House of Lords' Judgment 18
A Constitutional Review and Fundamental Rights 18
B Rationality 22
C Legitimate Expectations 25
VIII International Law Perspectives 28
IX International Law and National Law 31
A Theoretical Approaches: Dualism and Monism 31
B International Law and English Law 32
C The Fitzmaurice Compromise 35
X Conclusion 36
2 The Chagos Islanders and the European Convention on Human Rights: Extra-territoriality and the Concept of State Jurisdiction 39
I Introduction 39
II State Jurisdiction and Article 1 of the European Convention 40
III Al-Skeini and the Relationship between Article 1 and Article 56 ECHR 46
IV The Chagos Islanders v UK Case 47
V The Governance of British Overseas Territories 52
VI The Personal and Spatial Modes of State jurisdiction 53
VII Dividing and Tailoring Convention Obligations in the Extra-territorial Context 56
VIII The Normative Foundations of the Convention's Extra-territorial Application 59
IX Constituent and Legislative Authority in British Overseas Territories 61
X Subordinate Legislative Authority 64
XI The Object and Purpose of Article 63/56 of the European Convention 66
XII Conclusion 72
3 Detaching the Chagos Islands from Mauritius: The 1965 Mauritian Constitutional Conference and the Making of the Lancaster House Agreement 75
I Introduction 75
II Colonial Acquisition in the Mauritian Context 75
III British Colonial Withdrawal and the Prospect of a US Military Facility on Diego Garcia 77
IV The 1965 Mauritian Constitutional Conference and the Lancaster House Agreement 83
V The Lancaster House Agreement 88
VI Assessing the Relationship between the Detachment of the Chagos Islands and Mauritian Independence 90
VII Conclusion 100
4 The 1965 Lancaster House Agreement and International Law 102
I Introduction 102
II The Doctrine and the Development of the Treaty Law 103
III The Relationship between Coercion and Consent in the Conclusion of Treaties 108
IV International Legal Personality, Treaty-Making Capacity and the 1965 Lancaster House Agreement 116
A International Legal Personality and Treaty-Making Authority in the Colonial Context 116
B International Legal Personality and Treaty-Making Authority in the Mauritian Context 118
V Coercion in the Conclusion of Treaties and Colonial Self-determination 125
VI Conclusion 128
5 Detaching the Chagos Islands from Mauritius: The Status of Colonial Self-determination in International Law during the mid-1960s 131
I Introduction 131
II Legal Rules, Legal Principles and Legal Rights 132
III The Rise of the Principle of Self-determination and International Law 137
IV The Principle of Self-determination in the UN Charter 139
V Chapter XI and Chapter XII of the UN Charter 140
VI Holistic Interpretations of the Charter: Article 1 and Chapters XI and XII 144
A Self-determination and the Drafting of the UN Charter 144
B Self-determination and the Concept of 'People-hood' 145
VII The General Assembly: Chapter XI and the Progressive Development of the Right to Self-determination 148
A The Genera] Assembly and the Supervision of Non-Self-Governing Territories 151
VIII Non-Self-Governing Territories 152
A The Scope of the Concept of Domestic jurisdiction 152
B The Concept of Non-Self-Governing Territories 155
IX The Colonial Declaration 156
X General Assembly Resolution 1541(XV)(1960) 158
XI Charter-based Arguments 163
XII The Formation of General Customary International Law 170
A State Practice 170
B Opinio Juris 172
XIII Self-determination, the Colonial Declaration and Customary International Law 176
XIV The ICJ and Colonial Self-determination: Formalism versus Teleology 186
XV The South West Africa Cases: Substantive Law and the Formation of Customary International Law 190
XVI Fitzmaurice and the Formalist Interpretation of Self-determination 192
XVII 'Decolonizing the Court' 194
XVIII Conclusion 196
6 Mauritian Claims of Sovereignty over the Chagos Islands: Mauritian Self-determination 198
I Introduction 198
II Colonial Self-determination in the Mauritian Context 199
III The Principle of Uti Possidetis Juris 201
IV Uti Possidetis Juris in the Mauritian Context 203
V The Creation of the British Indian Ocean Territory 204
VI The Significance of General Assembly Resolution 2066 (XX) (1965) 207
A Support for Resolution 2066 from UN Members States in the General Assembly 209
B The Juridical Facts of the Detachment of the Chagos Islands from Mauritius 212
VII Sovereignty over the Chagos Islands: The Position of the UK Government 213
VIII Sovereignty over the Chagos Islands: The Position of the Mauritian Government 215
IX The Estoppel Argument 216
X Non-Self-Governing Territories and the Right to Self-determination 219
XI The Concept of a Non-Self-Governing Territory 221
XII The Case of West New Guinea 224
A Historical Background 225
B The Battles in the UN General Assembly (1954-61) 226
C Dutch Resignation and the 1962 New York Agreement 229
D The Administrative Argument 231
E The Sovereignty Argument 232
F The Ethnic/Cultural Argument 233
XIII The Mayotte Question 234
XIV The Significance of West New Guinea and Mayotte for BIOT's Status 239
XV The Temporal Limits of Non-Self-Governing Territory Status 241
XVI Non-Self-Governing Status and the BIOT 243
XVII Conclusion 246
7 The Chagos Islanders and International Law 248
I Introduction 248
II The Feasibility of Resettling the Outer Chagos Islands 249
III The BIOT as a Non-Self-Governing Territory 253
IV Are the Chagos Islanders a 'People' for the Purpose of Exercising the Right to Self-determination in international Law? 254
V Chagossian Perspective on UK Sovereign Authority in respect of the BIOT 260
VI Chagossian Self-determination and Applicable Human Rights Treaties 262
A International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 262
B International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 267
C International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 268
VII Good Governance in British Overseas Territories 270
VIII The Salience of Indigenous Rights for the Chagos Islanders 273
A The Concept of Indigeneity in International Law 273
B The Concept of Indigeneity in the Chagossian Context 274
C Indigenous Land Rights in the Chagossian Context 277
IX Conclusion 282
Conclusion 284
Bibliography 289
Index 299