Modern Piracy Legal Challenges and Responses

Author: Douglas Guilfoyle
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781849804844
Published In: April 2013
Format: Hardback , 368 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Modern Piracy is the first book to survey the law of maritime piracy from both public law and commercial law perspectives, as well as providing a contextual overview of piracy in major hotspots.

Topics covered include issues of international law, law-enforcement cooperation, private armed security, ransoms, insurance and carriage of goods by sea. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the range of legal issues presented by the modern piracy menace and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners alike.

Benefiting from a wide range of international expertise, this book will be of interest to public international law academics, government legal counsel, maritime commercial law practitioners, international relations academics as well as anyone interested in transnational organised crime.
Preface

1. Introduction: Piracy, Law and Lawyers
Douglas Guilfoyle

PART I: CONTEXT
2. Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Southeast Asia
Robert Beckman

3. Piracy Off Somalia and Counter-piracy Efforts
Douglas Guilfoyle

4. Petro-Piracy: Predation and Counter-Predation in Nigerian Waters
Martin N. Murphy

5. Responses to Contemporary Piracy: Disentangling the Organizational Field
Christian Bueger

PART II: PIRACY AND PUBLIC LAW
6. Piracy and the International Law of the Sea
Tullio Treves

7. Capture and Disruption Operations: The Use of Force in Counter-Piracy off Somalia
Andrew Murdoch and Douglas Guilfoyle

8. Initiating Criminal Proceedings with Military Force: Some Legal Aspects of Policing Somali Pirates by Navies
Håkan Friman and Jens Lindborg

9. Reshaping Maritime Security Cooperation: The Importance of Interagency Coordination at the National Level
Brian Wilson

PART III: PIRACY AND PRIVATE LAW
10. International and Comparative Regulation of Private Maritime Security Companies Employed in Counter-piracy
James Kraska

11. What is a Pirate? A Common Law Answer to an Age-old Question
Peter MacDonald Eggers QC

12. Insurance Protection Against Piracy
Peter MacDonald Eggers QC

13. Piracy and Carriage of Goods by Sea
Keith Michel

PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
14. Policy Tensions and the Legal Regime Governing Piracy
Douglas Guilfoyle

Index
Douglas Guilfoyle, Reader in Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London, UK