Modern piracy
Subtitle: legal challenges and responses
By: edited by Douglas Guilfoyle, Reader in Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London, UK
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781849804844; 9781849804936
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Piracy (International law); Piracy; Prevention; International cooperation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Piracy, law and lawyers  -- Douglas Guilfoyle; title: Piracy and armed robbery against ships in Southeast Asia  -- Robert Beckman; title: Piracy off Somalia and counter-piracy efforts  -- Douglas Guilfoyle; title: Petro-piracy : predation and counter-predation in Nigerian waters  -- Martin N. Murphy; title: Responses to contemporary piracy : disentangling the organizational field  -- Christian Bueger; title: Piracy and the international law of the sea  -- Tullio Treves; title: Capture and disruption operations : the use of force in counter-piracy off Somalia  -- Andrew Murdoch and Doughas Guilfoyle; title: Initiating criminal proceedings with military force : some legal aspects of policing Somali pirates by navies  -- Håkan Friman and Jens Lindborg; title: Reshaping maritime security cooperation : the importance of interagency coordination at the national level  -- Brian Wilson; title: International and comparative regulation of private maritime security companies employed in counter-piracy  -- James Kraska; title: What is a pirate? : A common law answer to an age-old question  -- Peter MacDonald Eggers; title: Insurance protection against piracy  -- Peter MacDonald Eggers; title: Piracy and carriage of goods by sea  -- Keith Michel; title: Policy tensions and the legal regime governing piracy -- Douglas Guilfoyle.