Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea
the legal framework for counter-piracy operations in somalia and the gulf of aden
$153.00
- Hardcover
340 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2011
Summary
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 intheir quest to repress piracy in the larger Gulf o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199609529 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199609527 |
| Author: | Robin Geiss, Anna Petrig |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 340 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 654g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 156mm x 27mm |
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This book shines a powerful light on that regime and describes the plethora of conventions, agreements, United Nations resolutions, juridictional rules, and legal principles that apply to different aspects of anti-piracy operations...This book is a welcome contribution to the discussion of what is becoming a very troublesome and very urgent problem which the world can only ignore at its peril'The Commonwealth Lawyer…an excellent primer for anybody who wishes to learn the subject…fully of excellent analysis,,,covers material that is essential for an understanding and background of Somali piracy.‘The Journal of International Maritime Law
About The Author
Robin Geiss
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 GenevaAnna 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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