This week’s video clip is an interesting summary of how international law applies to the fight against piracy. The clip shows Professor John Norton Moore, director at the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, talking inter alia about the applicable norms and what could be done on the level of international law to confront piracy. You can access the archive of our clips of the week here.
Clip of the week on piracy and international law
Published in Clip of the Week and Law of the Sea
Founder of the International Law Observer.
Well, I think piracy will continue. People will pretty much always steal what doesn’t belong to them, unless you can make all people innately good or give them economic options they don’t already have. Which you can’t.