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27 May

...the USA will vacate the 9th Circuit ruling and condemn this new 'invented' definition of 'private ends' which labels protesters as pirates -- and remind the 9th Circuit where the judicial branch ends and the executive branch begins as the US government has officially opposed Japan's poaching for decades. With some hope for justice, the ICJ will find that Japan is indeed in breach of its obligations as a signatory to the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, CITES, and UNCLoS. AnimuX It's also important to point out...
27.05.13 | |

07 Nov

...to consider. I'll take one case from each side to give an example. Spector - the primacy of flag-state jurisdiction is a relatively undisputed principle of international law. I believe that the current version of UNCLOS, to which the US is not (yet) a signatory admittedly, makes it pretty clear that this amounts to CIL. Regardless, the principle has popped up all over the place elsewhere, going back to the early part of last century with the Lotus case in the PCIJ. Subsequent decisions make it clear that most would...
07.11.07 | |

17 Nov

...pretty good Navy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque Richard Response... Anyone interested in US naval doctrine regarding the law of naval warfare should look at the Commander's Handbook on that subject, http://www.nwc.navy.mil/cnws/ild/documents/1-14M_(Jul_2007)_(NWP).pdf. It's a tri-service (USN/USMC/USCG) publication and covers the use of force across the spectrum of maritime contingencies, including piracy. Rob Isn't the British order to ignore pirates a violation of UNCLOS? Bandit Meanwhile, the British have instructed their navy to ignore pirates, out of the remarkable fear that any captured Somali pirates might have asylum claims on metropolitan Britain. As we all...
17.11.08 | |

18 Mar

William Taylor To anyone interested, what authority does the US Navy have to attack and take custody of pirates? From the UN Security Council encouragement, and/or customary international law of the sea (since the US is not a party to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea)? Would you consider an incident like this to be an incentve for the US to ratify UNCLOS? W. Taylor...
18.03.06 | |