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The Gulf of Maine Case: The Written Proceedings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

D. M. McRae*
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University of British Columbia
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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 1984

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References

1 The case was commenced by Special Agreement of March 29, 1979. For background to the Special Agreement, see McRae, , “Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area,” (1979) 17 Canadian Yearbook of Int’l L. 292.Google Scholar

2 The Canadian Memorial was accompanied by 4 volumes of Annexes, the Canadian Counter-Memorial was accompanied by 5 volumes of Annexes, and the Canadian Reply by 2 volumes of Annexes. The United States Memorial was accompanied by 5 volumes of Annexes, the United States Counter-Memorial was accompanied by 5 volumes of Annexes, and the United States Reply was accompanied by 2 volumes of Annexes. In all, the written pleadings consist of 29 volumes.

3 The Chamber is composed of President Ago and Judges Gros, Mosler, Schwabel, and ad hoc Judge Cohen. See also order of Court of January 20, 1982, [1982] I.C.J. Rep. 1.

4 Canadian Memorial, para. 2.

5 Ibid., para. 6.

6 Ibid.

7 This adjustment in the equidistance line is justified in the Canadian Memorial on the ground that “the elongated protrusion of Cape Cod, separated from the Massachusetts mainland by the Cape Cod Canal, is indisputably an irregularity of the eastern North American coastline, and its eastward thrust is wholly out of alignment with the general direction of the Massachusetts coast within the Gulf of Maine” (para. 346).

8 Department of State Public Notice No. 506, Federal Register, Vol. 41, No. 214, November 4, 1976, at 18619–20.

9 United States Memorial, para. 301.

10 Ibid., para. 303.

11 Ibid., para. 304.

12 Canadian Memorial, para. 278.

13 United States Memorial, para. 8.

14 Canadian Counter-Memorial, para. 545.

15 Ibid., para. 549.

16 Ibid., 229.

17 [1982] I.C.J. Rep. 1, at 48–49.

18 Canadian Memorial, paras. 298–99.

19 Canadian Counter-Memorial, para. 558.

20 Ibid., para. 545.

21 Ibid., para. 580.

22 Ibid., para. 545.

23 Ibid., para. 589.

24 Ibid., para. 594.

25 Ibid., para. 590.

26 Ibid., para. 545.

27 United States Memorial, para. 238.

28 Ibid., 140.

29 Ibid., para. 239.

30 Ibid.

31 Ibid., para. 240.

32 Ibid., para. 242.

33 Ibid., para. 244.

34 Ibid, para. 245.

35 Ibid., para. 246.

36 Ibid., 142.

37 Ibid., para. 247.

38 Ibid., para. 250.

39 Ibid., 143.

40 Ibid., para. 252.

41 Ibid., para. 25.

42 Ibid., 145.

43 Ibid., para. 258.

44 Ibid., para. 261.

45 Ibid., para. 260.

46 Canadian Counter-Memorial, para. 96.

47 Canadian Memorial, para. 18.

48 Canadian Counter-Memorial, para. 107.

49 Canadian Memorial, para. 345.

50 Ibid., para. 33.

51 Ibid., para. 63.

52 United States Memorial, para. 20.

53 Ibid., para. 25.

54 Ibid., para. 281.

55 Ibid., para. 286.

58 Ibid., para. 283.

57 Ibid., para. 289.

58 Ibid., para. 287.

58 Canadian Memorial, para. 64.

60 Ibid., para. 84.

61 Ibid., para. 89.

62 Canadian Counter-Memorial, para. 202.

63 Canadian Memorial, para. 307.

64 United States Memorial, para. 30.

65 Ibid., para. 38.

66 Ibid., para. 39.

67 Ibid., para. 57.

68 Canadian Memorial, para. 427.

69 Ibid.

70 Ibid., para. 322.

71 Ibid.

72 Ibid., para. 323. This agreement, negotiated along with the Special Agreement submitting the Gulf of Maine dispute to the Chamber, had been withdrawn from the Senate by President Reagan and thus has never been ratified by either party.

73 Ibid., para. 324.

74 Canadian Reply, para. 242.

75 The acronym BLM stands for the “Bureau of Land Management” of the United States Department of the Interior.

76 Canadian Reply, para. 239.

77 Ibid., para. 243.

78 Ibid., para. 244.

79 Ibid., para. 247.

80 United States Memorial, paras. 104–13.

81 Ibid., paras. 114–20.

82 Ibid., paras. 121–28.

83 Ibid., paras. 129–30.

84 Ibid., paras. 131–32.

85 Ibid., para. 299.

86 Canadian Counter-Memorial, para. 599.

87 Canadian Memorial, paras. 179–89.

88 Ibid., paras. 190–94.

89 Ibid., para. 200.

90 Ibid., paras. 150–59.

91 Ibid., paras. 160–64.

92 Ibid., paras. 167–74.

93 Ibid., para. 311.

94 Ibid., para. 316.

95 Ibid.

96 United States Counter-Memorial, paras. 187–90 and paras. 340–48.

97 United States Memorial, para. 330.

98 Ibid., para. 297.

99 United States Counter-Memorial, para. 326.

100 Ibid., para. 321.

101 Ibid., 207.

102 Canadian Memorial, para. 259.

193 Canadian Reply, para. 330.

104 Canadian Counter-Memorial, para. 699.

105 Ibid.

106 Canadian Memorial, para. 278.

107 Ibid., para. 362.

108 Feldman, and Colson, , “The Maritime Boundaries of the United States,75 A.J.I.L. 749 (1981).Google Scholar

109 Canadian Counter-Memorial, paras. 642–47.

110 Canadian Memorial, para. 370.

111 Ibid., para. 371.

112 Canadian Counter-Memorial, para. 717.

113 United States Memorial, para. 264.

114 Ibid., paras. 265–66.

115 Ibid., para. 325.

116 Ibid., Figures 34 and 35.

117 United States Counter-Memorial, para. 307.