Expert advice on international land and maritime territorial disputes

Since 1980 Menas has provided governments and commercial clients with specialist research and testimony services relating to a wide variety of international land and maritime territorial disputes.

We have also provided expert witnesses for a number of major insurance claims involving projects in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.

Menas has been engaged on a variety of territorial and maritime disputes, acting for governments, law firms and multinational companies. Some cases have been heard before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, while other briefs have been prepared for bilateral arbitration or relate to hydrocarbon related border disputes.

Working in close partnership with specialist lawyers, our role in these cases will typically involve conducting a full range of para-legal activities associated with border disputes. These include archival and historical research of primary and secondary sources of information; cartography and map research; technical surveying, hydrography, and remote sensing; anthropology, geography and primary field work.

Our past and current work has included the following conflicts:

• Cameroon vs Nigeria (ICJ)
• Egypt vs. Israel (arbitration)
• Jordan vs. Israel (boundary study)
• Libya vs. Chad
• Libya vs. Malta (ICJ)
• Libya vs. Tunisia (ICJ)
• Qatar vs. Bahrain (ICJ)
• Yemen vs. Saudi Arabia (bilateral arbitration)

We have also conducted major studies of the competing claims in the Gulf of Thailand, the South China Sea, Mediterranean, Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf for more than ten governments and oil companies.

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