Convenors: Professor Panos Koutrakos and Professor Achilles Skordas
Date: 12-13 July 2012
Venue: University of Bristol Law School, Wills Memorial Building, (Room 5.68).
Programme
Thursday 12 July
14:00 Welcome - Setting out the scene: Panos Koutrakos and Achilles Skordas (Bristol)
14:15 Conceptual exploration of the notion of piracy
- Piracy and the development of international law: Malcolm Evans (Bristol)
- Piracy and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Robin Churchill (Dundee)
- Piracy and the International Maritime Organisation and International Maritime Bureau: tbc
16:00 The EU and counter-piracy approaches
- Piracy and NATO: Peter Olson (NATO Legal Service)
- Piracy and the EU's policies on the law of the sea (Sonja Boelaert, European Commission Legal Service)
- Piracy and the transfer agreements concluded by the EU: Daniel Thym (Konstanz)
17:30 Drinks reception
Friday 13 July
9:00 International actors and counter-piracy approaches
- Piracy, EU and international law: Ricardo Gosalbo Bono (EU Council Legal Service)
- Piracy and the United States: Gabriel Swiney (U.S. State Department Legal Service)
- Piracy and the United Kingdom: Andrew Murdoch (Foreign and Commonwealth Office Legal Service)
- Regional approaches to piracy: the case of South-East Asia: David Ong (Essex)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Piracy and international norms
- Piracy and the use of force: Alexander Proelß (Trier)
- Piracy and international humanitarian law: Thilo Marauhn (Giessen)
- Piracy and terrorism: Douglas Guilfoyle (UCL)
16:30 Synthesis of counter-piracy approaches
- Is there a global law on counter-piracy?: Jan Klabbers (Helsinki)
Attendance is free but limited - please contact Ms Toni Walsh