Costa Rica v. Nicaragua (Judgment of the International Court of Justice, 2 February 2018)

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Abstract
Abstract This chapter analyses the ICJ’s 2018 judgments in Costa Rica/Nicaragua which resolved linked land and maritime disputes between Costa Rica and Nicaragua in two separate oceans. Faced with a highly unstable Caribbean coastline at the mouth of the San Juan River, the Court relied on independent geomorphological experts to confirm sovereignty over Isla Portillos and ordered Nicaragua to remove a military camp. For the Caribbean maritime boundary, it adopted an innovative solution: a fixed point 2M offshore on the median line, connected landward by a mobile segment responsive to coastal change, and it denied any territorial sea effect to Nicaragua’s Harbor Head Lagoon enclave. For the EEZ and continental shelf, the Court applied the three-stage method, addressed radial versus frontal projections, and adjusted the provisional equidistance line by giving the Corn Islands half effect. In the Pacific, it similarly applied Article 15 and the three-stage approach, unusually granting Santa Elena Peninsula half effect (but full effect to Nicoya), and confirmed an equitable result through disproportionality checks.
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Authors Stephen Fietta, Robin Cleverly
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/law/9780192883414.003.0029
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https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192883414.003.0029
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