Piracy

Professor Douglas Guilfoyle is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2022-2026) at UNSW Canberra. His principal areas of research are the international law of the sea, and international and transnational criminal law. His fields of specialism include maritime law-enforcement, international courts and tribunals, and international legal history. He was previously a Professor of Law at Monash University, Reader in Law at University College London, and has worked as a judicial associate in the Australian Federal Court system and in commercial litigation. He was a Gates Cambridge Trust scholar and Chevening scholar during his graduate study at the University of Cambridge.Tamsin Phillipa Paige is an Associate Professor with Deakin Law School. Her work is interdisciplinary in nature, using qualitative sociological methods to analyse international law (with a focus on application of law and the impact it has on society). She also does law and literature research using popular fiction to understand social perceptions of the law. Her work has examined (among other things) Somali piracy, UN Security Council decision making, the impact of international law on queer lives, and conflict based sexual violence. Previously she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at UNSW Canberra and during her graduate studies she was an Endeavour Scholar. In a former life, she was a French trained, fine dining pâtissière.

• 1: Introduction 2: The law and State practise relating to piracy before the twentieth century 3: The codification of the law of piracy 4: Elements of the offence (with Rob McLaughlin) 5: Jurisdiction over piracy (with Michelle Chase) 6: Enforcement 7: Piracy suppression and prosecution: twenty-first century State practice and challenges 8: Conclusion