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29 Aug 2012, 8:14 am by Raffaela Wakeman
It seems that the Navy’s recently-released data on piracy attacks jibe with the International Maritime Bureau’s data released earlier this summer. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 9:04 am by Kelly Buchanan
The Law Library of Congress has digitized a collection of pre-1923 piracy trials. [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 5:00 am by Jessica Dorsey
In light of the recent rise in piracy, the UN has voiced its support for an international summit to discuss maritime security, which will take place before the end of the year. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 10:00 pm
Personal vessels, diving and fishing boats and even piracy are all covered under these laws. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 2:10 am
The book draws on published governmental material in the public domain, specifically the U.S., and addresses recent progress in maritime security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by sea, piracy, and protection of underwater cultural heritage. [read post]
29 Jul 2012, 10:00 pm
 have had success in dealing with cases of maritime piracy. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 10:00 pm
The Cost of Piracy The economic cost of maritime piracy is staggering. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 12:35 pm by Dan Taglioli
The IMB Piracy Reporting Centre [official website] (PRC) received reports [materials] of 177 incidents in the first six months of this year, compared to 266 incidents for the same period in 2011. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 10:00 pm
Maritime piracy lawyers know these waters as some of the most dangerous for pirate activity. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 9:43 am by Raffaela Wakeman
The AP brings good news from the International Maritime Bureau on piracy: attacks have fallen 54% in the first half of 2012, with Somali piracy drop-off playing a major role in that reduction. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 10:00 pm
The International Maritime Bureau on Monday reported a 54 percent drop in maritime piracy in the first six months of the year. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 8:58 am by Meir Feder
Scholars like Thomas Lee of Fordham have persuasively demonstrated that piracy (which was covered by the maritime jurisdiction conferred in the same 1789 legislation that included the ATS) likely was not intended to be within the ATS. [read post]
7 Jul 2012, 11:14 am
The latest issue of the Journal of International Maritime Law (Vol. 17, no. 6, 2011) is out. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 7:48 pm by Max Kennerly, Esq.
This is not law practice it is simply a form of legalized piracy. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 8:30 am by Lawrence Solum
For the first time since they dealt with the legal issues raised by a wave of maritime predation in the Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, Supreme Court justices are seriously discussing piracy. [read post]
21 Jun 2012, 12:09 am by Vikram Raghavan
This regime is reflected internally in the Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act of 1976 as well. [read post]
17 Jun 2012, 12:58 pm by Duncan Hollis
Now comes the case of the Enrica Lexie, which seems destined to test the lessons of Lotus and the international maritime law it engendered (the case even has its own Wikipedia entry). [read post]
26 May 2012, 6:18 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
“This case marks a major success in the cross border fight against maritime piracy and represents a blueprint for international cooperation with INTERPOL in the fight against maritime piracy and its networks,” said the Head of INTERPOL’s Maritime Piracy Task Force, Pierre St. [read post]
25 May 2012, 2:28 pm
Cases such as this have continually brought attention to the definition of piracy, and some maritime lawyers and legal professionals are disputing today’s updated definition—which some argue should follow the 200 year precedent where stealing a boat constitutes piracy. [read post]
24 May 2012, 8:39 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website] ruled Wednesday that the legal definition of maritime piracy [JURIST news archive] includes an armed attack to hijack a ship, even if the attempt is unsuccessful. [read post]