Summary

It should be interesting for an arbitration audience to not just look at an individual International Court of Justice (ICJ) case - such as the Qatar-Bahrain case presented here - but to develop a wider, deeper and more sophisticated understanding of the main methods of settling such boundary disputes and of their implications in terms of definitive solution and acceptance, cost, time and quality, and the range of benefits and costs that are likely to arise for the parties involved. I am therefore putting myself, not in the position of a litigator on behalf of a State, but rather ...