{"id":144,"date":"2010-09-17T14:32:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/17\/piracy-research-guide\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T21:01:49","slug":"piracy-research-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/17\/piracy-research-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Piracy research guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/09\/piracy.jpg\" title=\"Pirates\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/09\/piracy.jpg\" alt=\"Pirates\" align=\"left\" height=\"313\" width=\"445\" \/><\/a>Piracy is funny when it involves parrots with risqu\u00e9 vocabularies, saying \u201cArgggh\u201d a lot, and Johnny Depp proudly debarking from his sinking jalopy of a raft.\u00a0 Piracy is deadly serious when it is a form of terrorism in which routes of commerce are disrupted, people die, and a sea captain in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0054357\/\" title=\"IMDB\"><em>Swiss Family Robinson<\/em><\/a> makes his granddaughter dress like a boy to protect her from\u2026well, I could never figure out from what when I was eight years old.\u00a0 But something really, really bad.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talklikeapirate.com\/\" title=\"Talk Like a Pirate Day official site\">International Talk Like a Pirate Day<\/a> this coming Sunday (September 19th every year), here are some resources for learning about the not-so-funny legal aspects of piracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/law\/\" title=\"Law Library of Congress\">Law Library of Congress<\/a> has digitized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/law\/help\/piracy\/piracy_trials.php\" title=\"Piracy Trials\">this collection<\/a> of 57 works about piracy that range in date from 1696 through 1905.\u00a0 These accounts, many of them melodramatic retellings of attacks by pirates, trials, and executions, provide an interesting look at piracy in the Western Hemisphere.\u00a0 Learn more about this collection from <a href=\"http:\/\/library2.lawschool.cornell.edu\/insiteasp\/public\/display_browse.asp?style=st_browse&amp;id=1763&amp;prevpage=3ccls\" title=\"Piracy Trials\">InSITE<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lawschool.cornell.edu\/\" title=\"Cornell Law Library\">Cornell Law Library<\/a>\u2019s review of free legal Web sites.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/louisdl.louislibraries.org\/cdm4\/browse.php?CISOROOT=\/LWP\" title=\"Louisiana WPA Collection\">Louisiana Works Progress Administration Collection<\/a> provides public access to <a href=\"http:\/\/louisdl.louislibraries.org\/cdm4\/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&amp;CISOBOX1=Pirates&amp;CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&amp;CISOOP2=all&amp;CISOBOX2=pirates&amp;CISOFIELD2=subjec&amp;CISOROOT=\/LWP&amp;t=s\" title=\"Louisiana piracy collection\">this collection<\/a> about piracy in New Orleans history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/law-of-piracy\/oclc\/36112206?referer=br&amp;ht=edition\" title=\"catalog record\">The Law of Piracy<\/a>. Alfred P. Rubin. 2nd ed. Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1998.\u00a0 Law Library call number K5277 .R89 1998.\u00a0 This book traces the development of piracy and piracy law in the Greco-Roman world, England, and the United States.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/piraterie-au-vingtieme-siecle-piraterie-maritime-et-aerienne\/oclc\/27463300&amp;referer=brief_results\" title=\"catalog record\">La Piraterie au Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle: Piraterie Maritime et A\u00e9rienne<\/a>.\u00a0 Corinne Touret.\u00a0 Paris: Librairie G\u00e9n\u00e9rale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, E.J.A., 1992.\u00a0 Law Library call number K5277 .T68 1992.\u00a0 This book takes an international law approach.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/patriot-pirates-the-privateer-war-for-freedom-and-fortune-in-the-american-revolution\/oclc\/165957643&amp;referer=brief_results\" title=\"catalog record\">Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution<\/a>.\u00a0 Robert H. Patton.\u00a0 New York: Pantheon Books, 2008.\u00a0 Olin Library call number E271. P27 2008.\u00a0 Patriot Pirates describes of the history of American colonial privateers during the Revolutionary War (like Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, except in a different war), their motivations, and the questionable legality of their actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong> (links to HeinOnline)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?handle=hein.journals\/hlr38&amp;div=25&amp;collection=journals&amp;set_as_cursor=2&amp;men_tab=srchresults&amp;terms=%28%28sea%29%29&amp;type=matchall\" title=\"HeinOnline\">Is the Crime of Piracy Obsolete?<\/a>\u00a0 Edwin D. Dickinson.\u00a0 38 Harv. L. Rev. 334 (1925).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?handle=hein.journals\/ajil32&amp;div=21&amp;collection=journals&amp;set_as_cursor=23&amp;men_tab=srchresults&amp;terms=%28%28sea%29%29&amp;type=matchall\" title=\"HeinOnline\">The Charge of Piracy in the Spanish Civil War<\/a>.\u00a0 Raoul Genet.\u00a0 32 Am. J. Int\u2019l L. 253 (1938).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?handle=hein.journals\/vajint26&amp;div=26&amp;collection=journals&amp;set_as_cursor=7&amp;men_tab=srchresults&amp;terms=%28%28sea%29%29&amp;type=matchall\" title=\"HeinOnline\">Note: Towards a New Definition of Piracy: The <em>Achille Lauro<\/em> Incident<\/a>.\u00a0 George R. Constantinople.\u00a0 26 Va. J. Int\u2019l L. 723 (1986).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?handle=hein.journals\/ajil82&amp;div=23&amp;collection=journals&amp;set_as_cursor=0&amp;men_tab=srchresults&amp;terms=%28%28sea%29%29&amp;type=matchall\" title=\"HeinOnline\">Terrorism on the High Seas: The <em>Achille Lauro<\/em>, Piracy, and the IMO Convention on Maritime Safety<\/a>.\u00a0 Malvina Halberstam.\u00a0 82 Am. J. Int\u2019l L. 269 (1988).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?handle=hein.journals\/conjil6&amp;div=10&amp;collection=journals&amp;set_as_cursor=11&amp;men_tab=srchresults&amp;terms=%28%28sea%29%29&amp;type=matchall\" title=\"HeinOnline\">The New \u201cJamaica Discipline\u201d: Problems with Piracy, Maritime Terrorism and the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea<\/a>.\u00a0 Samuel Pyeatt Menefee.\u00a0 6 Conn. J. Int\u2019l L. 127 (1990).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?handle=hein.journals\/tulmar27&amp;div=12&amp;collection=journals&amp;set_as_cursor=12&amp;men_tab=srchresults&amp;terms=%28%28sea%29%29&amp;type=matchall\" title=\"HeinOnline\">Comment: International Law of the Sea: Reconciling the Law of Piracy and Terrorism in the Wake of September 11th<\/a>.\u00a0 Tina Garmon.\u00a0 27 Tul. Mar. L.J. 257 (2002).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?handle=hein.journals\/fora88&amp;div=59&amp;collection=journals&amp;set_as_cursor=14&amp;men_tab=srchresults&amp;terms=%28%28%28sea%29%29%29&amp;type=matchall\" title=\"HeinOnline\">Comment: Pirates, Then and Now: How Piracy Was Defeated in the Past and Can Be Again<\/a>.\u00a0 Max Boot.\u00a0 88 Foreign Aff. 94 (2009).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heinonline.org\/HOL\/Page?handle=hein.journals\/amuilr25&amp;div=18&amp;collection=journals&amp;set_as_cursor=1&amp;men_tab=srchresults&amp;terms=%28%28%28sea%29%29%29&amp;type=matchall\" title=\"HeinOnline\">Comment: Blackbeard Meets Blackwater: An Analysis of International Conventions that Address Piracy and the Use of Private Security Companies to Protect the Shipping Industry<\/a>.\u00a0 Jill Harrelson.\u00a0 25 Am. U. Int&#8217;l L. Rev. 283 (2010).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Web sites<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. State Department&#8217;s travel warnings for countries affected by piracy is available <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.state.gov\/travel\/cis_pa_tw\/piracy\/piracy_4420.html\" title=\"Travel warnings\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/publication\/18376\/combating_maritime_piracy.html\" title=\"CFR\">Resources<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/\" title=\"CFR\">Council on Foreign Relations<\/a> include articles and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/publication\/19106\/united_states_should_avoid_grand_schemes_in_somalia.html\" title=\"CFR interview\">interview<\/a> with an International Affairs Fellow, which is also available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/publication\/19106\/united_states_should_avoid_grand_schemes_in_somalia.html\" title=\"CFR podcast\">podcast<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>View world shipping traffic, including cargo, cruise, tanker, and pleasure ships, in real time with MarineTraffic.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinetraffic.com\/ais\/\" title=\"marinetraffic.com\">interactive map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There is a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apcss.org\/core\/Library\/Bibliography\/piracy.htm\" title=\"piracy bibliography\">bibliography<\/a> of additional piracy resources from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apcss.org\/graphics\/index.htm\" title=\"Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies\">Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Image: &#8220;The Pirates&#8221; Under False Colors-Can They Capture the Ship of State? from Cornell University Library&#8217;s Collection of Political Americana, available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cornelluniversitylibrary\/4360166180\/\" title=\"flickr.com\">flickr.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piracy is funny when it involves parrots with risqu\u00e9 vocabularies, saying \u201cArgggh\u201d a lot, and Johnny Depp proudly debarking from his sinking jalopy of a raft.\u00a0 Piracy is deadly serious when it is a form of terrorism in which routes of commerce are disrupted, people die, and a sea captain in Swiss Family Robinson makes <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/17\/piracy-research-guide\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[302],"tags":[338,309,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}