Lecture: ‘Fighting and Prosecuting Pirates’

The Peace Palace Library will hold a lecture on counterpiracy in the historic Reading Room on Tuesday, 10 January. The lecture is entitled ‘Fighting and Prosecuting Pirates’.

The evening will focus on operational and legal aspects of counterpiracy operations.

The programme will be start with a welcome reception at 17.00 hrs. followed by a launch of the book Public International Law as World Law by Prof. Nico Schrijver, published by Boom. The author is a professor at Leiden University, Senator in the Dutch House of Parliament and President of the International Law Association.

At 18.00 hrs. the meeting will address the central theme of the international community’s efforts in combating and prosecuting pirates. Commodore Michiel Hijmans will discuss the operational aspects of military operations to combat piracy, focusing on NATO’s counter-piracy operations. Marten Zwanenburg will discuss the legal aspects of such operations. Henny Baan will then discuss the prosecution of the arrested pirates. When prosecuting Somali pirates in the Netherlands, the Dutch criminal system is confronted with various novel questions of both domestic and international criminal law.

For more information about piracy, see JASON's Piracy Project at www.stichtingjason.nl.

The lectures will be followed by a Q&A session starting at 19.15 hrs.

Registration
If you wish to attend the lectures, please register in advance. To enter the premises of the Peace Palace, you are required to bring a valid ID (passport, driving license), and show this to the security at the gate of the Palace.

To register and for more information, please send an email to Mr. Otto Spijkers of the Peace Palace Library at o.spijkers@ppl.nl.

About the Peace Palace Library Lecture Series
The Peace Palace Library Lecture Series is a lecture series on issues of general international law. Approximately four lectures will be organised in the Peace Palace Library each year. The Peace Palace Library Lecture Series are open to everyone and are especially interesting to researchers and students, as well as diplomats, international civil servants, journalists and other professionals working in the field of public international law.

More information can be found on the website of the Peace Palace Library www.ppl.nl.

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