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Tag: Piracy

  • UN Security Council

    UN Security Council The Council is composed of fifteen member states, five of them permanent members and specified by name in the Charter. These are the United States, Russia (replacing the Soviet Union in 1991), China, the United Kingdom, and France. The rest are elected for two-year terms […]

  • Piracy

    See Transnational crime . The first precise attempt to codify piracy was in 1958 when the Convention on the High Seas was adopted in order to clarify the legal status of pirates and the competence to arrest pirates. These articles in the Convention on the High Seas have been incorporated into […]

  • Suspected Pirates

    International Support for Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to International Support for Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice: (1) United Nations On November 18, 2013, the UN Security Council adopted […]

  • Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice

    International Support For Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): In international fora, the United States continued to underscore the importance of bringing […]

  • Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice

    International Support For Efforts to Bring Suspected Pirates to Justice in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): In international fora, the United States continued to underscore the importance of bringing […]

  • Us Prosecutions

    United States Prosecutions in 2011 United States views on international law (based on the document "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"): Domestically, the United States continued to pursue the prosecution of captured individuals suspected in several pirate attacks. As of […]

  • Piracy Prosecutions Issues

    Piracy U.S. Prosecutions in 2013 (Continuation) United States views on international law [1] in relation to Piracy U.S. Prosecutions: 1. Piracy and the Charming Betsy Canon Section 1651 criminalizes “the crime of piracy as defined by the law of nations.” Correspondence between […]

  • Piracy Prosecutions

    Piracy U.S. Prosecutions in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Piracy U.S. Prosecutions: Domestically, the United States continues to pursue the prosecution of captured individuals suspected in several pirate attacks. As of the end of 2013, the United States […]

  • Piracy Issues

    Piracy in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Piracy: On April 20, 2013, Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and in this world legal […]

  • Maritime Piracy

    Maritime Piracy Definition of Maritime Piracy In the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982, “maritime piracy”, in its article 101, consists of: any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or…