Historic Title Research Articles

Forty Years of Canadian Sovereignty Assertion in the Arctic, 1947-87

Threats of objections to Canadian claims to sovereignty and to the exercise of sovereign rights by Canada in the Arctic Islands was not unchallengeable. Canadian concerns focused on the desire of the United States to establish weather stations in the Arctic with or without Canadian support. By the early 1950s, and with bilateral agreements with the United States on the DEW Line and BMEWS, Canadian terrestrial sovereignty was beyond question. Canadian maritime claims continued to be contested during the balance of the period. These claims have taken the form of functional jurisdiction over pollution, an historic title to the waters of the archipelago and the rejection of an "international" status for the waters of the Northwest Passage. Canadian maritime claims in the Arctic have not been consistently formulated or consistently pursued by the Canadian government during the period due to an evolving international law of the sea and American objections. The Canadian position on functional jurisdiction over pollution has been vindicated by the Law of the Sea Convention, but there continue to be significant doubts as to the status of the archipelagic waters.Key words: international law, sovereignty, historic title, functional jurisdiction, international straits

The Role of ‘Folk Law’ as Evidence of Historic Title in International Boundary Claims

(1985). The Role of ‘Folk Law’ as Evidence of Historic Title in International Boundary Claims. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 17, No. 23, pp. 69-101.

Toward an Understanding of the Formation of Historical Titles in the Book of Psalms

Toward an Understanding of the Formation of Historical Titles in the Book of Psalms

The Law of the Sea of the Arctic: With Special Reference to Canada

Abstract : Seven major questions are studied: The applicability of the right of innocent passage to the Northwest and Northeast Passages; the status of the waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; the possibility of claiming a historic title to some of the Arctic waters; the applicability of the principle of 'the freedom of the seas' to the Arctic Ocean; the status of ice shelves and ice islands; the international validity of the Canadian Arctic pollution prevention legislation and the state boundaries of the Arctic continental shelf and sea-bed.

Book Review: International Law and Organization: Unilateral Denunciation of Treaty Because of Prior Violations of Obligations by other Party, Historic Titles in International Law, Diplomatic Asylum

Book Review: International Law and Organization: Unilateral Denunciation of Treaty Because of Prior Violations of Obligations by other Party, Historic Titles in International Law, Diplomatic Asylum

Historic Titles in International Law. By Dr. Yehuda Z. Blum. [The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965, xxiii + 360 pp. $11.50.

Historic Titles in International Law. By Dr. Yehuda Z. Blum. [The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965, xxiii + 360 pp. $11.50.

Historic Titles in International Law. By Yehuda Z. Blum, M. Jur. (Jerus.), Ph.D. (Lond.), Lecturer in International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Assistant Legal Adviser Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Israel Bar. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1965. Pp. xxiii, 360 (Guilders 40.50).

Historic Titles in International Law. By Yehuda Z. Blum, M. Jur. (Jerus.), Ph.D. (Lond.), Lecturer in International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Assistant Legal Adviser Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Israel Bar. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1965. Pp. xxiii, 360 (Guilders 40.50).

The So-Called Symmachian Forgeries

HIS is the title used by Grisar for a group of writings which appeared at the beginning of the sixth century,' T though, as I shall show later, the name is misleading. Still, any name is apt to be misleading, and it is a good general rule to qualify rather than to change an accepted historical title. These writings are not in themselves of great importance, except as belonging to that cycle in which, in all probability, the Liber pontificalis had its beginnings. They have a second interest, in that they may help us to understand the motives that lay behind other and more important forgeries. There is no pretense that in these documents we have found the key to the whole complicated question of medieval forgery, but it may well be the case that in some instances we have taken such writings too seriously, and have not given their first readers due credit for a saving sense of humor. There is no doubt that in many forged documents the sinister intent may be taken as proved, but on the other hand, I believe, there is another group where there was originally no intent to deceive, only the subtle irony of the writers was not apparent to later readers out of touch with the local situation. The modern scholar is apt to see this latter group from the traditional point of view, and impute to the authors a dishonesty of purpose of which they were wholly innocent.