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Dear Gbenga, If I understand your question correctly, one (much contested) example that comes readily to mind is the Shatt-al-Arab. Best, Maurice Maurice Mendelson, Q.C. Blackstone Chambers Barristers Blackstone House Temple London EC4Y 9BW England. Tel. +44 20 7583 1770; fax +4420 7822 7350; email [log in to unmask] This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and legally privileged. This e-mail is intended to be read only by the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail is prohibited and that privilege has not been waived. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying by email or by telephone and then delete the e-mail. -----Original Message----- From: International boundaries discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gbenga Oduntan Sent: 02 May 2014 02:27 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [INT-BOUNDARIES] Are Shoreline Boundaries viable/Fair Dear Colleagues, Shoreline boundaries for lakes and other water bodies are quite unusual but they do exist (i.e. national boundaries defined by ownership over the entire water body by one state, leaving the international boundary at the shoreline rather than the Thalweg or median delimitation as is usual). Examples in Africa (although contested in some quarters) may include Lake Nyasa/Malawi between Malawi and Tanzania and the Orange River between South Africa and Namibia. My questions then are -are there many other examples of shoreline boundaries (giving the entire river to one state) are out there? How many of these have been successfully challenged on the basis of being incompatible with the norm of median line delimitation? Is it fair to contest the 'fairness' of such shoreline delimitation mainly on the basis that there is a preponderance of median line solution in international practice? Best Regards Gbenga Coming Soon: International Law and Boundary Disputes in Africa by Gbenga Oduntan Routledge -2014 -256 Series: Routledge Research in International Law http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415838924 JUST PUBLISHED: Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in Airspace and Outer Space http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415562126/ Dr. Gbenga Oduntan Senior Lecturer -International Commercial Law Convenor -LLM, International Commercial Law Kent Law School, Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NS, UK. Switchboard 0044 (0)1227 764000 (ext 4817) Direct Line 0044 (0)1227 824817 Fax: 0044 (0) 1227 827831 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.kent.ac.uk/law/people/index.htm This email has been scanned by Blackstone's Hosted Email Security. ________________________________ This email has been scanned by Blackstone's Hosted Email Security.