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Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea
The Legal Framework for Counter-Piracy Operations in Somalia and the Gulf of Aden
Robin Geiss and Anna Petrig
344 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-960952-9
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Hardback
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24 February 2011
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- The first monograph to specifically and comprehesively deal with the legal regime pertaining to piracy underway in Somalia and the Gulf of Aden
- Provides a sophisticated legal analysis of the complexities surrounding the counter-piracy operations in the region
- Details the evolution of the international law relating to piracy and armed robbery at sea, placing the current operations in context
Since 2008 increasing pirate activities in Somalia, the Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean have once again drawn the international community's attention to piracy and armed robbery at sea. States are resolved to repress these impediments to the free flow of trade and navigation. To this end a number of multinational counter-piracy missions have been deployed to the region.
This book describes the enforcement powers that States may rely upon in their quest to repress piracy in the larger Gulf of Aden region. The piracy rules of the United Nations Convention on
the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the legal safeguards applicable to maritime interception operations are scrutinized before the analysis turns to the criminal prosecution of pirates and armed robbers at sea. The discussion includes so-called shiprider agreements, the transfers of alleged offenders to regional states, the jurisdictional bases for prosecuting pirates, and the feasibility of an international(ized) venue for their trial. In addressing a range of relevant issues, this book presents a detailed and comprehensive up-to-date analysis of the legal issues pertaining to the repression of piracy and armed robbery at sea and assesses whether the currently existing legal regime is still adequate to effectively counter piracy in the 21st
century.Readership: Scholars of the law of the seas, international criminal and humanitarian law, the use of force, and International Relations. Post-graduate students, practitioners and policymakers, government legal advisors, military legal advisors, and NGOs; International Human Rights lawyers.
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Robin Geiss, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Potsdam, Germany, and Anna Petrig, Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany Robin Geiss is Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Potsdam, Germany. Formerly he worked as a legal adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva
Anna Petrig, is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (Germany), where she is in charge of the Sea Piracy Project. She is admitted to the Bar of New York (USA) and of the Canton of Berne (Switzerland).
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"Geiß and Petrig's contribution is an extremely useful toolbox for international law issues specifically connected to the situation in the Gulf of Aden, and may be of lasting significance as a repository of state practice." - Cameron A. Miles, British Yearbook of International Law
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Introduction
Part I: Current Efforts to Counter Piracy in Somalia and the Gulf of Aden
i: Piracy in the Gulf of Aden
ii: Efforts to Counter Piracy in the Gulf of Aden
iii: Conclusion
Part II: Historic Evolution of Legal Rules Relating to Piracy
i: Codification of Piracy Rules in the 20th Century
ii: Counter-Terrorism Rules Relevant for Violence against Ships and Persons on Board
iii: Regional Instruments
iv: Conclusion
Part III: Counter-Piracy Enforcement Powers and their Legal Constraints
i: Scope of Counter-Piracy Enforcement Powers
ii: Shiprider Agreements
iii: Legal Constraints on Counter-Piracy Enforcement Powers
Part IV: The Criminal Prosecution of Pirates and Armed Robbers at Sea
i: Adjudicative Jurisdiction over Pirates and Armed Robbers at Sea
ii: Possible Venues for the Criminal Prosecution of Piracy Suspects
iii: Transfers of Piracy Suspects
Conclusion
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