International
Mar. 11, 2011
The Wrong Way to Prosecute Piracy
U.S. courts have displayed a shaky grasp of the law when dealing with pirate attacks. By David Sloss of Santa Clara University School of Law.
In the second half of last year, two different judges in the Eastern District of Virginia decided federal criminal cases involving pirate attacks on U.S. naval vessels off the coast of Somalia. The two judicial decisions are starkly different in certain respects, but they illustrate a broader point: Most American lawyers and judges are woefully uneducated about the complexities of international law.
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