Pirates and Maritime Law Legal Constructs and Cultural Perceptions

Introduction: Pirates and Popular Culture Part 1: The First Image—Pirates and the Seven Seas 1. What’s in a Name? Pirates, Buccaneers, Privateers, Corsairs, and the Concept of Piracy Throughout the Ages 2. Pirates and the Making of International Maritime Law: The (In)Visible Driving Force 3. Now Charted Waters: Piracy and Law at the Turn of the 21st Century Part 2: The Second Image—Pirates and Liberty 4. Freedom at Sea: Pirate Codes, Social Organisation, and Legal and Economic Innovation 5. Freedom on Land: The Occident, the Orient, and Beyond 6. End of Liberty: Pirate Trials in the State of Exception Part 3: The Third Image—Pirates and Lost Treasures 7. Treasures Lost on Land: What Gives? 8. Treasures Lost at Sea: Between Salvage and Heritage Laws 9. Coda. The Tragedy of Treasures Lost and the Comedy of Treasures Found, or The Case of San José Galleon. 10. Conclusion

Biography

Mirosław Michał Sadowski, Lecturer in Law, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK.

"Pirates and Maritime Law is an intellectually ambitious book that is also elegantly argued, making it a highly enjoyable read. It will be of wide interest not only to maritime lawyers and legal historians, but all those interested in fundamental questions about how law is formed in or adapts to emerging and changing socio-cultural and economic contexts." 
Patrick O’Callaghan,  Professor of Law, University College Cork, Ireland.

"Sadowski’s book is a treasure trove of riches that uses piracy to tell a legal tale that interweaves law, popular culture and geopolitics in the formulation and implementation of maritime law. Writing in an engaging style he discusses pirates as outlaws, freedom fighters and treasure hunters drawing on an exhausting booty of sources. An original and very impressive work." 
Thomas B. Gold, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley, USA.