Jean-Pierre Bouvet

For the purposes of these papers,

'international law' means pursuant to the article 38(1) of the statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ);

'unitization' means current private international law concept in the matter of petroleum activities;

'unity of deposit' means vocabulary word used in the 1969 ICJ decision in the matter of the 'problem' pointed out (North sea Continental Shelf Cases, judgement, §§97, 99, 101.C.2)