Modern Piracy is the first book to survey the law of maritime piracy from both public law and commercial law perspectives, as well as providing a contextual overview of piracy in major hotspots.Topics covered include issues of international law, law-enforcement cooperation, private armed security, ransoms, insurance and carriage of goods by sea. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the range of legal issues presented by the modern piracy menace and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners alike.Benefiting from a wide range of international expertise, this book will be of interest to public international law academics, government legal counsel, maritime commercial law practitioners, international relations academics as well as anyone interested in transnational organised crime.Contributors: R. Beckman, C. Bueger, H. Friman, D. Guilfoyle, J. Kraska, J. Lindborg, P. Mac Donald Eggers QC, K. Michel, A. Murdoch, M.N. Murphy, T. Treves, B. Wilson