Warm greetings int-boundaries!

Per Martin's directions in his automated welcome message, I am  
writing both to share news that might be of interest to the list as  
well as to introduce myself.

The news is that the ICJ on Monday 8 October handed down its judgment  
in the Territorial and Maritime Dispute between Nicaragua and  
Honduras in the Caribbean Sea.  (The full judgment can be found at  
http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/120/14075.pdf)  Both Nicaraguan  
President Ortega and Honduran President Zelaya have expressed their  
satisfaction with the judgment and have pledged to honor it.  (For  
sample coverage, see http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/10/ 
icj-settles-nicaragua-honduras-boundary.php)

I suspect that almost every aspect of this judgment will be of  
interest to this list's readers; the Court had occasion to address  
some difficult issues relating, inter alia, to alleged colonial  
title, the starting point of the delimitation at an unstable land  
boundary terminus, the effect of various marginal land/island  
features on the maritime delimitation, equidistance v. bisector as a  
method of delimitation in light of the geographic/geologic/ 
geomorphologic/legal characteristics of the disputed area, and the  
impact of third State claims (e.g., Colombia, Jamaica) on the endpoint.

For my part, I got to see the case up close owing to my position as  
law clerk (référendaire) to ICJ Judge Abdul Koroma (Sierra Leone), on  
a fellowship from New York University School of Law for the 2006/2007  
term (which ended in June).  For that reason, I can say very little  
more about the case now than that "the judgment speaks for  
itself" (and speak it does!).

I am currently in The Hague clerking for The Honorable Charles N.  
Brower on the private and international investment arbitration cases  
in which he sits as arbitrator from his 20 Essex Street Chambers,  
London, practice.

I am also Oceans and Law of the Sea Adviser (ex officio, now that I  
am in The Hague) to the Permanent Mission of Palau to the UN.  My  
experience with the Palau Mission lies in the legal aspects of  
continental shelf delineation under UNCLOS Article 76, as well as in  
fisheries and oceans environmental law and policy.

My NYU LL.M thesis was recently published in Volume 42 of the Texas  
International Law Journal:  "Tough Love:  The Dramatic Birth and  
Looming Demise of UNCLOS Property Law (And What Is To Be Done About  
It)."  I received my JD from NYU as well.  My other previous and  
forthcoming publications have concerned marine protected areas and  
destructive fishing practices and policies in the high seas.

I can be reached personally by email at [log in to unmask]

Yours sincerely,
Peter Prows