Saturday, April 26, 2008 - Posts
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But since they're not, Ben is of course right that pirates should be detained if they've done bad things. That said, I'm not sure it's fair take the U.K.'s apparent move not to detain some pirates to be the human rights law failure Ben does. For one thing, Read More...
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Diane’s post highlights an excellent example of the often perverse consequences of human-rights policies for, well, human rights. There is no doubt that modern pirates commit horrible crimes against civilians; that's their chosen profession. Yet because Read More...
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Since the time of Grotius , a pirate has been considered to be hostis humanis generis , an enemy of mankind. So write Ilias Bantekas and Susan Nash in their book International Criminal Law (2003). As a global enemy, the pirate was subject to prosecution Read More...
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