Abstract
This paper analyses the law of informal boundary making in Israel/Palestine and the Morocco–Spain borders. I ask how states actively exploit informal bounding practices to escape legal accountability and what structural limitations international law faces in contexts that go beyond formal bounding practices. International legal scholarship has been overwhelmingly concerned with formal boundaries –territorial state borders– while relegating other bounding practices –dynamic, shifting, paradoxical– to the subordinate field of informal international lawmaking (IN-LAW). Beneath the binomial formal/informal boundary making lies a historically contingent relationship of power and space that underpins international law as a system of spatially-bounded territorial states.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 24 |
| Publication status | Unpublished - 2023 |
| Event | 2023 Global Scholars Academy - Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP) - Stellenbosch University , South Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa Duration: 16 Jan 2023 → 20 Jan 2023 https://iglp.law.harvard.edu/events/2023-global-scholars-academy/ |
Conference
| Conference | 2023 Global Scholars Academy - Institute for Global Law & Policy (IGLP) |
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| Country/Territory | South Africa |
| City | Stellenbosch |
| Period | 16/01/23 → 20/01/23 |
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Keywords
- legal boundaries
- Borders
- Territoriality
- Sovereignty
- Informal lawmaking