September 6: Cleveland + Webcast - End Game! An International Conference on Piracy #MCLE

For the moment pirate attacks are down, but piracy continues to present a major threat to world shipping. Even with greatly expanded patrolling by international navies and increased use of private security forces, there have been 48 pirate attacks, 448 seamen were held hostage by pirates, and global economic losses due to piracy topped 5 billion dollars in the last twelve months. Meanwhile, renewed political turmoil in Somalia and Yemen is sowing the seeds for a fresh generation of pirates with increasingly deadly tactics. This conference brings together two-dozen of the world’s foremost counter-piracy experts to analyze the novel legal challenges and options related to this new phase in the fight against piracy.
Title:
End Game! An International Conference on Piracy
When/Where:
Moot Courtroom (A59)
September 6, 2013
9:00 AM  - 5:00 PM
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-7148
Also Webcast
Speakers:

• Chair: Prof. Michael Kelly, Creighton Law School, President of the AIDP/US National Section
• Prof. Ved Nanda, University of Denver School of Law
• Prof. Prof. James Gathii, Loyola of Chicago Law School
• Mr. Ashley Roach, former State Department Official
• Hon. Rosemelle Mutoka, Chief Piracy Judge, Kenya
• Ms. Sulakshna Beekarry, Chief of Piracy Prosecutions, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mauritius
• Chair: Prof. Melissa Waters, Washington University School of Law
• Hon. Duncan Gaswaga, Supreme Court of the Seychelles Islands 
• Prof. Shelly Whitman, Dalhousie University
• Prof. Mark Drumbl, Washington and Lee College of Law
• Prof. Milena Sterio, Cleveland Marshall College of Law
• Luncheon Speech: Romeo Dallaire
• Chair: Prof. Juscelino Colares, Assoc. Dir., Cox Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
• Mr. Yaron Gottlieb, INTERPOL
• Mr. Kevin Stephenson, Executive Secretary of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, formerly Senior Financial Sector Specialist with the Financial Market Integrity Unit at the World Bank
• Prof. Hugh R Williamson, Dalhousie University
• Prof. Richard Gordon, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
• Chair: Dr. Greg Noone, CAPT, JAGC, US Navy / Fairmont State University
• Mr. Jon Huggins, Director, Oceans Beyond Piracy
• Prof. Mark Sloan, Research Fellow, Dalhousie University
• Mr. Simon Barker, Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada
• Prof Michael Newton, Vanderbilt Law School
• Prof. Lauri Blank, Emory Law School

By:

• Case Western Reserve University School of Law
• Frederick K. Cox International Law Center
• American Society of International Law; Public International Law and Policy Group; International Criminal Law Network; American Branch of the International Law Association.

Credit:
6 hrs. of CLE credit available
Cost:
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration required.
Supplemental Readings:

• Agora Piracy Prosecutions Countering Piracy Off Somalia
• Legal, Political and Strategic Initiatives of Mauritius
• Lessons Identified From Somali Piracy
• Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law & Policy
• Solution to Piracy Found on the Land, Not the Sea
• Towards a Regional Solution to Somali Piracy
• United States' Ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention

More:
http://law.cwru.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=337