North Sea Continental Shelf, Germany v Netherlands and Germany v Denmark (ICJ Rep 3, ICGJ 150 (ICJ 1969)
Facts: Apart from having waters 12 nautical miles away from its coasts, a coastal state is separately entitled to take economic resources 200 nautical miles away from its coast. However, controversy surrounded the North Sea because of a continental shelf, which, according to one definition, is the part of the continental margin between the […]