Although universal jurisdiction over piracy has long existed in customary international law and conventions, such as the Convention on High Seas (HSC) United Nations Law of Sea (UNCLOS), situation been changing. The subsidence Somali provides an opportunity for rethinking how to strengthen maritime trials enhance a sustainable anti-piracy legal system. incidents have resulted some new developme...

Today, sustainable development seems to not only have become the paradigm of new development, but its link human rights has also evident, considering influence exerted on it by main normative instruments that reflect these rights. It should come as no surprise, therefore, this issue is now a priority within UN’s framework for action. While traditional such international treaties and other conve...

This paper analyses the competence of European Union to regulate questions private international law and how this has affected negotiation agreements with third States, where also plays a leading role. In relation this, participation in conventions Hague Conference on Private International Law relations established Regulations are analysed. The starts by analysing most important adopted regardi...

In many domains, a latent competition among different conventions determines which one will come to dominate. One sees such effects in the success of community jargon, of competing frames in political rhetoric, or of terminology in technical contexts. These effects have become widespread in the on-line domain, where the ease of information transmission makes them particularly forceful, and wher...

Possibly the first formal action of the United States in the field of social security was a system of health insurance for seamen established in 1798. In June 1946, at the maritime session of the International Labor Conference in Seattle, representatives of this country worked with delegates from more than 30 other governments that are members of the International Labor Office to draw up conven...