8.5 Legal Consequences of State Succession (the consolidated list)

Treaties: territorial regimes continue; the rest by category — devolution agreements, notification, renegotiation; clean slate for newly independent states; Membership: new states apply anew (the continuator exception — Russia; the Yemen merger's UN-seat continuity); Property and archives: the successor's equitable share; the archives' return principles; Debts: apportioned equitably; local debts follow the territory; odious debts resisted; Nationality: the population's automatic acquisition (or option) of the successor's nationality — statelessness avoidance (Unit 5's succession link); Responsibility: the predecessor's responsibility for pre-succession wrongs — the succession debates' hard frontier (the successor's assumption of assets supporting the claims' continuation); Boundaries and localizable regimes: uti possidetis juris — colonial boundaries' freezing into state boundaries (the Badinter Opinions' application to Yugoslavia); servitude-type regimes, demilitarizations — the localizable obligations' survival. Nepal's succession note (to carry into answers): Nepal as a continuing state (no succession event since Sugauli's adjustments — the 19th-century settlements' continuance), and as a practitioner of the newly independent states' concerns (the decolonization era's clean-slate constituency — NAM solidarity). Exam Focus Long questions: "Define state succession and distinguish it from government succession, explaining the theories with the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia." / "Explain the rules of succession to treaties, property, debts and nationality. What is the clean-slate doctrine?" Short questions: the 1978 definition; universal succession; clean slate; uti possidetis; odious debts; continuator state; Badinter…