NEW YORK CITY: The Surprising Consequences of a Maritime Ruling
Robyn Monaco, Rutgers Newark School of Law '11 and Political Science Masters Candidate '12, writes about her experience with Maritime Writs of Attachment in the New York banking industry and the veritable blizzard of filings brought on by a single...
A Somali man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to piracy charges stemming from an attack on a Danish ship carrying cargo from a Texas-based company. Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty in the US District...
The UN Security Council on Wednesday began considering several options to help counter ongoing piracy off the coast of Somalia , including the creation of a new international tribunal. In a report released...
Shipping companies, captain to stand trial for Australia oil spill
An Australian court on Wednesday ordered four companies and the captain of a cargo ship to stand trial over a 2009 oil spill that resulted in more than 53,000 gallons of oil being spilled into the coastal...
UN announces opening of new Kenya courtroom for piracy trials
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Friday announced the opening of a new high-security courtroom in Kenya that will hear maritime piracy cases as well as cases involving other serious criminal offenses....
The Netherlands Rotterdam District Court on Thursday sentenced a group of Somali pirates to five years in prison for hijacking a cargo ship registered in the Netherlands...
UN announces $9.3 million in donations to fund piracy courts
A spokesperson for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) piracy division announced Tuesday that donors will spend more than USD $9.3 million to fund courts in Kenya and Seychelles that prosecute suspected Somali pirates [JURIST...
Israel, the Turkish Gaza Flotilla, and Claim of Piracy Under International Law
JURIST Guest Columnist Itzchak Kornfeld of the Faculty of Law at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem says that Israel is in a state of war with Hamas and, pursuant to the UN Charter, has the right to self-defense, including the...
The Israeli ambassador to the US rejected the idea of an international inquiry into the Israeli raid on several ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip , during an appearance on FOX News Sunday . The proposal,...
Security Council calls for inquiry into disputed Israel action against Gaza aid ships
The UN Security Council Tuesday called for a "prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation" into a weekend raid by Israeli commandos on an aid flotilla bound for the blockaded Gaza strip in which 10 civilians...
