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		<title>Forthcoming article on private security</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/05/14/forthcoming-article-on-private-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 00:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Bellish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yvonne Dutton, an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (not to mention a friend and colleague), has a law review article forthcoming in the Duke Journal of Comparative &#38; International Law on regulating the private maritime security industry. Here&#8217;s the abstract: Since only mid-2011, states have increasingly authorized their shippers [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1647&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the Use of Force is Lawfull: The 100 Series Rules are Released</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/05/05/when-the-use-of-force-is-lawfull-the-100-series-rules-are-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 08:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo Crippa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a lengthy incubation process, the 100 Series Rules have finally been released. Courtesy of the author, David Hammond, we have obtained a copy here. The 100 Series Rules are an international model standard and example benchmark of best practice for the use of force in the maritime security and anti-piracy fields for application by privately [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1642&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New UN Assistance Mission in Somalia</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/05/04/new-un-assistance-mission-in-somalia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 07:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo Crippa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations confirmed their commitment for the future of Somalia by establishing a new fully integrated assistance mission, UNSOM. The mission will start deploying in June 2013, for an initial period of one year. For a background on the debate which preceeded the Security Council decision, see our previous post here as well as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1639&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USAID Budget to Somalia Proposed to Double</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/04/25/usaid-budget-to-somalia-proposed-to-double/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger L. Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we noted here, some within the US Congress are pushing for the US Agency for International Development budget allocation to Somalia to be increased. A February visit to the region by USAID&#8217;s top official, highlights this new emphasis. Although, it is likely that USAID will experience some significant budget cuts in the coming year [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1609&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kiobel Postscript</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/04/25/kiobel-postscript/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger L. Phillips</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my earlier analysis here, there was one other remarkable detail in the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision in Kiobel. Although, the opinion in Kiobel was devoted to the application of the Alien Tort Statute, it injected some confusion into a strictly piracy matter. Citing to Blackstone’s definition of piracy the court majority noted, “the offence [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1627&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calculating the Cost of Piracy</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/04/24/calculating-the-cost-of-piracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Bellish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 9, Oceans Beyond Piracy released its third annual Economic Cost of Somali Piracy (ECoP) Report at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen. The launch included a panel discussion including representatives from the Danish Shipowners Association, EUNAVFOR, Oceans Beyond Piracy, and BIMCO. Ambassador Thomas Winkler of the Danish Foreign Ministry and Mohamed Osman, Director [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1621&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piracy – Not just Kiobel’s Analogy</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/04/23/piracy-not-just-kiobels-analogy/</link>
		<comments>http://piracy-law.com/2013/04/23/piracy-not-just-kiobels-analogy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger L. Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted at opiniojuris.org The majority opinion in Kiobel precludes Alien Tort Statute claims for foreign conduct against foreign victims, leaving a small door for potential future claims that involve extraterritorial conduct so long as they touch and concern US territorial interests. But, when does a claim “touch and concern” the territory of the United States? [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1617&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report From the Piracy Contact Group, Working Group 2, Meeting in Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/04/13/report-from-the-piracy-contact-group-working-group-2-meeting-in-copenhagen/</link>
		<comments>http://piracy-law.com/2013/04/13/report-from-the-piracy-contact-group-working-group-2-meeting-in-copenhagen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Milena Sterio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted at international law girls. In my capacity as an independent academic, as well as a representative of the prominent non-governmental organization, the Public International Law and Policy Group, I had the honor of attending the 12th meeting of the United Nations Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, Working Group 2, meeting [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1603&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Pirate Organization – Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/04/10/book-review-the-pirate-organization-lessons-from-the-fringes-of-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo Crippa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the following have in common: the pirates of the high seas, the pirates of the radio airwaves in post-World War II’s Britain, as well as modern day internet cyberpirates and DNA bio-pirates? and how do they affect capitalism? In “The Pirate Organization – Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism”, Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1596&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From New Delhi to Rome (and Back) via Hamburg or The Hague: the Enrica Lexie Incident and the UNCLOS Dispute Settlement Mechanism</title>
		<link>http://piracy-law.com/2013/03/21/from-new-delhi-to-rome-and-back-via-hamburg-or-the-hague-the-enrica-lexie-incident-and-the-unclos-dispute-settlement-mechanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matteo Crippa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent decision of the Italian Government not to return two Italian marines to India for trial in connection with the killing of Indian fishermen is heightening tensions between Italy and India and is spawning an international diplomatic fallout. Since its inception, the case attracted much debate and conjecture, both by the media but also [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=piracy-law.com&#038;blog=19337924&#038;post=1587&#038;subd=piracylaw&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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