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Clip of the week on piracy and international law
This week’s video clip is an interesting summary of how international law applies to the fight against piracy. The clip shows Professor John Norton Moore, director at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of ...
Hugo Grotius’ ‘Mare Liberum’ – 400th anniversary
There are few individuals that have shaped international law as much as Hugo Grotius, the Dutch jurist, diplomat and philosopher, theologian and poet. His works include a comparison of constitutions (Parallelon rerumpublicarum), commentary on the ...
Another voice supporting a ‘pirate court’
I just today stumbled across this month-old article reporting on the Dutch foreign minister’s demand for a UN backed tribunal for the trial of pirates in the East African countries. We have reported earlier on the apparent desire among certain ...
Major Deadline for Continental Shelf Submissions
As if it was not already busy enough, the workload of the Commission on the Limits of the Outer Continental Shelf just got much bigger. The deadline for those states who became a party to the Law of the Sea Convention prior to 13 May 1999 to make the...
Are Somali Pirates Mere Robin Hoods?
For some time now, the argument that the pirates terrorising the waters off the coast of Somalia are a combination of environmentalists and Robin Hoods has been popping up (although it has not received the same amount of attention as the gripping sto...
Continental Shelf Settlement for Norway
The Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf (New York) has today decided that Norway’s claim on the limits of its continental shelf in the Northern Areas is justified, albeit with some exceptions. As a result, limits of the Norwegian continen...
Piracy off the Horn of Africa Underscores the Need for a Comprehensive Effort on the Part of the International Community to Restore Order in Somalia
Piracy is not a new phenomenon. It has existed for probably as long as sailing itself. While it was largely believed to be something of the past, it has made a notorious comeback in the last decade or so. Piracy is a domestic crime, besides being a c...
ITLOS amends it rules on prompt release proceedings
On 17 March 2009, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea adopted an amendment to the rules relating to the prompt release of vessels. The new rules change the way in which financial security may be posted to comply with the relevant prov...
ITLOS Election
A Special Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was convened on Friday 6 March in order to elect a judge to fill the vacancy created by the sad death of Judge Choon-Ho Park in November last year. In accordan...
Waste and the Law
If you hold an interest in international environmental law, you might find the special rapport in this week’s Economist on waste interesting. Although waste does not at first sight concern international law and related areas, the rapport fascinatin...
Arctic ownership and the US approach to the law of the sea
Could the question of “Arctic ownership” push the US to sign the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention? As we have reported earlier, and as frequently reported in the media (see e.g. this latest article at tampabay.com), the support fo...
Romania and Ukraine Maritime Boundary Case
I wanted to follow up on Gentian’s post on recent activity at the ICJ with a more detailed consideration of the judgment in the Case Concerning Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea delivered by the Court at the beginning of February. Although bo...
Addendum: What to do with Captured Pirates
As a follow-up to Michael Passman’s recent guest contribution on What to do with Captured Pirates, you can now access his full article on the subject, which was originally published in volume 33 of the Tulane Maritime Law Journal 2008 (cit. 33...
