Maritime Delimitation in Ghana/Côte d’Ivoire: Predictability … with an Occasional Glitch

The post comments on ITLOS Special Chamber, Judgment in Dispute Concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary Between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire in the Atlantic Ocean, 23 September 2017. Although the Special Chamber’s approach to the delimitation of the maritime boundary in Ghana/Côte d’Ivoire to a large degree aligns with the earlier case law and arguably contributes to the objective of predictability of the delimitation process, to which the Chamber explicitly refers (paras 281 and 289), there are a couple of points in the judgment that may seem to raise some concerns in that respect. The post focusses on those points.