Shipping / Transportation Law

Modern Piracy Legal Challenges and Responses

By Douglas Guilfoyle
Edward Elgar Publishing April 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781849804844
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
April 2013
Format
Hardback , 368 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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

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