37 Piracy
Anna Petrig
From: The Oxford Handbook of the Law of the Sea
Edited By: Donald R. Rothwell, Alex G. Oude Elferink, Karen N. Scott, Tim Stephens
- Subject(s):
- Law of the sea — UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) — Warfare, sea — Innocent passage — Territorial sea — Straits — Exclusive economic zone
This chapter begins with discussions of the necessity of a counter-piracy legal regime; forms of contemporary piracy; and the applicable legal framework and its historical roots. It then analyzes the scope of counter-piracy enforcement powers and the legal regime governing the criminal prosecution of alleged pirates, which assumes a holistic approach that goes beyond the law of the sea.
