The Law of Multinational Bays and the Case of the Gulf of Fonseca

Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Background and history of the dispute; 3. The Gulf of Fonseca and the international rules on bays: 3.1. The situation in 1917; 3.2. The situation in 1992; 3.3. The law of multinational bays; 4. The Gulf of Fonseca as a historic bay: 4.1 Elements of title to a historic bay; 4.2. The law of multinational historic bays; 5. The regime of the areas inside and outside the Gulf: 5.1. The waters inside the Gulf as internal waters; 5.2. The condominium regime; 5.3. The regime of the areas outside the Gulf; 6. Concluding remarks