Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights

1. Clipperton Island

   • Stefan Kirchner, Laura Ulatowski

2. Codicil to the 1751 Strömstad Treaty: Relevance for Indigenous Rights

   • Stefan Kirchner

3. Collective Aspirations: The Territorial Expansion of the European Union

   • Liam Siry

4. Communitarianism and Territorial Rights

   • M. Blake Wilson

5. Conceptualizing Global Indigenous Rights

   • Kerri J. Malloy

6. Continental Shelf: from the Truman Proclamation to the Law of the Sea Convention

   • Kevin A. Baumert

7. Creation of Territorial Rights Under the Treaty of Versailles

   • Seokwoo Lee, Lowell Bautista

8. Cultural Heritage and Territorial Rights

   • Robert Francis John Seddon

9. Decolonization and Boundary Disputes in West Africa

   • Daniel Mandell

10. Decolonization: Movement for Global Justice

    • Sydney Beckmann

11. Delimitation and Coastline Concavity in International Law

    • Stefan Kirchner

12. Destruction by Territorial Expulsion: The Cherokee Removal

    • Elisha Corbett

13. Disputed Territory in the Pacific Northwest: Indigenous, American, and British Claims

    • Kent McNeil

14. Dividing Canadian Sovereignty: Nunavut Land Claims Agreement

    • Audrey Whittle

15. Doctrine of Res Communis in International Law

    • Giulia Raimondo

16. Dubai/Sharjah Boundary Arbitration of 1981

    • Hassan Salman

17. Endangered Languages and Territorial Rights

    • Marco Antonio Joven-Romero

18. Europe’s New Maastricht Principles on the Extraterritorial Obligations of States

    • Ankita Gupta

19. Extraterritoriality Under Treaty: Antiquity to the Twentieth Century

    • James Edward Hoare

20. Falklands/Malvinas Islands, Distant Sovereignty, and Territorial Rights

    • Fabián O. Raimondo

This major reference work is a single-volume Encyclopedia that consolidates existing knowledge about territorial rights with new developments in academic scholarship. It contains more than 500 entries which combine concepts and theoretical arguments with concise, up-to-the-minute, graphic summaries of practical disputes about immigration, natural resources, secession, minority rights, borders, restorative justice, Aboriginal rights, and other issues related to territory. 

The entries cover three levels. The first level concerns specific territorial claims, and provides specific examples of disputes over territory, each of which gives rise to a unique series of territorial claims. Some examples in this category are Crimea/Ukraine, Russia, the Northwest Passage and Scottish Independence. The second level covers types and causes of territorial conflict. Prominent examples are conflicts about immigration, minority rights, indigenous people, and unoccupied land. The third level focuses on normative theories of territorial rights. Here the object of study involves the norms and political practices that govern territorial rights, both inside sovereign jurisdictions and at large in global society. Examples are individualism, nationalism/national self-determination, and a statist/collectivist framework. This section includes proposals for theories of territorial rights, such as associative, remedial, pluralistic and descriptive theories.

The combination of concise entries listed alphabetically, abundant links to academic sources, and a bibliography of territorial rights make this major reference work a primary research tool for scholars and a comprehensive introduction to new developments in a number of linked fields.

Editorial Board

Dr. Kevin W. Gray, Dr. Costas Laoutides, Dr. Laura Lo Coco, Dr. Lavonna L. Lovern, Dr. Nick C. Sagos, Dr. Katrinka Somdahl-Sands

• Academic debate on “territorial rights"
• Dimensions of territorial rights
• Disputes about immigration
• Aboriginal rights
• Territorial Disputes
• Territorial claims
• Causes of Territorial Conflict
• Geopolitical disputes
• Sovereign state as a dominant political form
• Causes of Territorial Conflict
• Conflicts about minority rights
• Conflicts about Indigenous Peoples
• Territorial pluralism and remedial justice
• Territorial rights
• Territorial Settlement

• Fordham University, New York, USA

  Kevin W. Gray

​Kevin Gray is a lawyer and an adjunct professor at Fordham University. He was previously counsel for the Government of Ontario (Crown Law - Civil Division) where he practiced public, constitutional and aboriginal law, a visiting scholar in philosophy at Boston College and the University of Frankfurt, and in law at Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He was also Assistant Professor of International Studies (with tenure) and Director of the Gulf Studies Center at the American University of Sharjah.He holds a PhD from Laval University in legal and political philosophy (2011), a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School (2020), as is an LLM candidate at Columbia Law School (2022, anticipated). His current research focuses on the relationship between critical theory and international law. His monograph, Parliamentary Sovereignty, International Law and Human Rights, which investigates the impact of international human rights law on common law constitutions, is under contract with Routledge Press (forthcoming 2022). He is also writing a monograph with Thomas W. Simon, entitled the Birth and Death of Legal Radicalism (under contract with Springer).

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