The Cameroon v. Nigeria Case – When the ICJ set Pacta Sunt Servanda and Nemo Dat Quod Non Habet to Nought

Abstract

On 29 March 1994 the Government of the Republic of Cameroon (‘Cameroon’) filed in the Registry of the International Court of Justice (‘the Court’ or ‘ICJ’) an Application instituting proceedings against the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (‘Nigeria’) concerning inter alia, a dispute described as ‘relating essentially to the question of sovereignty over the Bakassi Peninsula’