CONTENTS: Foreword Preface The Origins The Evolution of the Concept of Piracy in England The United States of America and the Law of Piracy British Practice in the Nineteenth Century "Piracy" in the Twentieth Century Appendices Abbreviations Bibliography Index Index of Cases Professor Alfred P. Rubin of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, the author of this volume, has contributed a work of exceptional scholarship that will long be regarded as an authoritative reference material not only with respect to the law of piracy, but to the whole of international law....
CONTENTS: Foreword Preface The Origins The Evolution of the Concept of Piracy in England The United States of America and the Law of Piracy British Pr...
The distinguished international lawyer Alfred Rubin argues powerfully that disagreements that have existed for thousands of years among lawyers, ethicists, and political scientists are unlikely to be resolved soon. Current attempts to make "war crimes" or "terrorism" criminal under international law seem doomed to fail for the same reasons that attempts failed in the early nineteenth century to make piracy, war crimes, and the international traffic in slaves criminal under the law of nations.
The distinguished international lawyer Alfred Rubin argues powerfully that disagreements that have existed for thousands of years among lawyers, ethic...
Piracy on the high seas is not a thing of the past. Although it is not much in the public eye, it is still, as it always has been, a significant threat to international trade. But should there be an international piracy law regime? In this study, now in its second edition, Professor Rubin thinks not. The phenomenon has many diverse roots in contemporary affairs, and the dangerous blurring of important legal distinctions (eg. criminal and political) is all too likely.
Piracy on the high seas is not a thing of the past. Although it is not much in the public eye, it is still, as it always has been, a significant threa...
