LEGAL DISPUTES OF MARITIME BOUNDARIESDIMENSIONAL CASE STUDY OF THE THAILANDCAMBODIA

The principal aim of this research is the quest for a well-balanced legal system that reconciles predictability and flexibility in the law of maritime delimitation. As with all types of law, the law of maritime delimitation should possess a degree of predictability. The other flexible considerations of geographical are also required in order to achieve equitable results. How, then, is it possible to ensure predictability while taking into account a diversity of factors in order to achieve an equitable result？ This, according to the author, is the question at the heart of the law of maritime delimitation. This issue in depth by looking at three aspects of the question.＂ first by looking at the two opposing and contrasting approaches evident in the evolution of the law of maritime delimitation; second, by undertaking a comparative study of the case law and State practice; and third, by examining the theoretic 1958 Geneva Conventions and the pioneer ruling in the North Sea Continental Shelf case.＂ the inherent and ＂ab initio＂ rights of the coastal State, the requirement for delimitation by agreement, and the emphasis on the role of equity. But much remained to be worked out by State practice and by jurisprudence; and in such a novel field, it is perhaps not surprising that there have been many inconsistencies and reversals. There could be no better guide through this labyrinth than whose sureness of direction is based on very detailed study, All problems underlie the law of maritime delimitation. Nowadays, many studies have been written in the field of maritime delimitation. Most of them have focused on the case law. In fact, as is shown in the bibliography, there are many articles relating to inter-national judgments in this field. Since it has been argued that the law of maritime delimitation has developed through international jurisprudence, it was only natural that writers turned to the analysis of case law in this field. By contrast, State practice concerning maritime delimitation has not been suffici