Piracy and armed robbery at sea
Subtitle: the legal framework for counter-piracy operations in Somalia and the Gulf of Aden
By: Robin Geiss, Anna Petrig
Contributors: Petrig, Anna
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780199609529
Subjects: Piracy
Description: This work describes the enforcement powers that states may use to repress piracy in the Gulf of Aden region. The piracy rules of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the legal safeguards applicable to maritime interception operations are scrutinized before the analysis turns to the prosecution of pirates.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312) and index.