Are pirates criminals or combatants? The historically developed legal views on piracy with an account of the US intervention in Tripoli

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 1,0, University of Vienna (Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät/ Institut für Europarecht, Internationales Recht und Rechtsvergleichung), language: English, abstract: An essay about the legal views on piracy through the history of law, starting with Ancient Greece. Written with regard of the takes of legal scholars of several centuries and special consideration of the US invasion against the so called Barbary States in Northern Africa. Closing with the reason for why the question of how to assess acts of piracy could become more important in these times.