THE CASE OF OGADEN: AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
1 | P a g e THE CASE OF WESTREN SOMALILAND (OGADEN): AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVE Legal and historical document written by Professor Reisman who teaches at Yale Law School. The present essay draws on work he and Professor Myres S. McDougal (Yale Law School) have been engaged in jointly. HORN OF AFRICA JULY-SE PTEMBER THE CASE OF WESTREN SOMALILAND (OGADEN): AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVE W. Michael Reisman Contents 1.Background 3 2.The Boundary Issue and Ethiopian Claims 5 3.Decolonization and the Right of Self-Determination 8 4.Self-determination and Non-Self-Governing Territories 10 5.Conflicts Between International and Regional Law 12 6.Conclusion 13 1. Background Somaliland, as a geographical term, refers to vast areas in the Horn of Africa, inhabited almost exclusively by the Somali people for centuries. Western Somaliland the extensive inland area between the mountain ranges of Ethiopia and the plains of the Somali Republic has been claimed by bot