Modern piracy : legal challenges and responses / edited by Douglas Guilfoyle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guilfoyle, Douglas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piracy (International law).

Piracy--Prevention--International cooperation.

Piracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 inte

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: piracy, law and lawyers; PART I CONTEXT; 2 Piracy and armed robbery against ships in Southeast Asia; 3 Piracy off Somalia and counter-piracy efforts; 4 Petro-piracy: predation and counter-predation in Nigerian waters; 5 Responses to contemporary piracy: disentangling theorganizational field; PART II PIRACY AND PUBLIC LAW; 6 Piracy and the international law of the sea; 7 Capture and disruption operations: the use of force incounter-piracy off Somalia

8 Initiating criminal proceedings with military force: some legalaspects of policing Somali pirates by navies9 Reshaping maritime security cooperation: the importance ofinteragency coordination at the national level; PART III PIRACY AND PRIVATE LAW; 10 International and comparative regulation of private maritime security companies employed in counter-piracy; 11 What is a pirate? A common law answer to an age-old question; 12 Insurance protection against piracy; 13 Piracy and carriage of goods by sea; PART IV CONCLUSIONS; 14 Policy tensions and the legal regime governing piracy; Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 28, 2013).

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-84980-493-1

OCLC:

844964766