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Modern Piracy: Legal Challenges and Responses

Edited by: Douglas Guilfoyle

ISBN13: 9781849804844
Published: April 2013
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £126.00



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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.

Subjects:
Public International Law
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 Hakan 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