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Full Volume 81: International Law Challenges: Homeland Security And Combating Terrorism
Full Volume 81: International Law Challenges: Homeland Security And Combating Terrorism
International Law Studies
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Universal Jurisdiction And The Pirate: Time For An Old Couple To Part, Joshua M. Goodwin
Universal Jurisdiction And The Pirate: Time For An Old Couple To Part, Joshua M. Goodwin
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
For hundreds of years, the world has allowed any nation-state to exercise universal jurisdiction over high seas piracy. This has been recently codified by the United Nations in the Convention on the Law of the Seas. It has been almost universally assumed that allowing states to do this was legitimate. As this Note will argue, however, the reasons for allowing states to exercise jurisdiction in this way no longer make sense in the modern world. Further, allowing states to exercise universal jurisdiction over pirates violates the due process rights of the pirates and poses a threat to international stability. To …