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KLABBERS, J., "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof : the World Court, State Succession, and the Gabikova-Nagymaros Case", in : Leiden Journal of International Law, 11 (1998), no. 2, pp. 345-355 The law relating to state succession played a small but important role in the World Court's recent decion in Gabcikovo-Nagymaros. Hungary's argument that the 1977 Treaty had not survived the transition from Czechoslovakia to Slovakia notwithstanding, the Court found that the Treaty had continued to be in force. Hungary presented several arguments relating to succession. The present article analyzes these arguments in context and concludes that the Court came up with the right decision, but through a process of reasoning that is less than fully convincing. | |