THE STANDARD By
Kamau Muthoni |
February 21st 2021 at 00:03:20 GMT +0300
Sean David Murphy is an American international law scholar currently serving as the Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., where he has been teaching since 1998. [Courtesy, Standard]
A former judge of an international tribunal and a law lecturer in the UK are part of a team of eight hired to defend Kenya in a maritime dispute filed by Somalia.
Prof Sean Murphy of George Washington School of Law will be leading the team alongside Justice Tullion Treves, a a former judge at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea. Justice Treves also appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a similar case pitting Peru versus Chile.
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From left to right: Sean Murphy, Justice Tullion Treves, and Coalter Lathrop (part of Kenya s legal team).
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Kenya has tapped top-level international lawyers in order to lead the maritime case against Somalia that has been ongoing for more than six years.
The two neighbouring countries have been involved in a dispute over which direction their borders extends into the Indian Ocean.
The lawyers span from across the world and boast of different credentials as some have litigated before the International court of justice and handled multiple foreign cases.
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