Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory
Legal Perspectives
Editors: Allen, Stephen, Monaghan, Chris (Eds.)
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This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field. It examines the broader significance of the ongoing Bancoult litigation in the UK Courts, the Chagos Islanders' petition to the European Court of Human Rights and Mauritius' successful challenge, under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, to the UK government's creation of a Marine Protected Area around the Chagos Archipelago. This book, produced in response to the 50th anniversary of the BIOT's founding, also assesses the impact of the decisions taken in respect of the Territory against a wider background of decolonization while addressing important questions about the lawfulness of maintaining Overseas Territories in the post-colonial era.The chapter ‘Anachronistic As Colonial Remnants May Be...’ - Locating the Rights of the Chagos Islanders As A Case Study of the Operation of Human Rights Law in Colonial Territories is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-7
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Justifying Bancoult (No 2): Why Justice Hercules Must Sometimes Disappoint Us
Pages 9-41
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Environmental Protection v the Right of Abode: A Case-Study in the Misuse of Power
Pages 43-54
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How Public Law Has Not Been Able to Provide the Chagossians with a Remedy
Pages 55-84
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The Subject as a Civic Ghost: Law, Dominion, and Empire in the Chagos Litigation
Pages 85-110
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory
- Book Subtitle
- Legal Perspectives
- Editors
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- Stephen Allen
- Chris Monaghan
- Series Title
- The World of Small States
- Series Volume
- 4
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-78541-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-78541-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-78540-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-08725-8
- Series ISSN
- 2627-5996
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 381
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