International criminal law: Terrorism and Piracy in the United States

1. Major Treaties and Documents

• United Nations, International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, U.N. Doc. A/52/653 (25 November 1997; not in force yet)
• Canada’s Department of International Trade and Foreign Affairs has collected several older treaties at its site on terrorism at http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/english/foreignp/treaties-e.htm–what follows is a selection of these treaties of the numerous ones at the site in full text.
  • Convention for the suppression of unlawful seizure of aircraft signed at the Hague, on 16 December 1970.
  • Convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of civil aviation signed at Montreal on 23 September 1971.
  • Convention on the physical protection of nuclear material, signed at New York and Vienna, 3 March 1980.
  • Convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of maritime navigation, signed at Rome, 10 March 1988.
• European convention on the suppression of terrorism of 27 January, 1977, ETS No. 90.

2. Research Sites

• Terrorism Research Center
  Terrorism Research Center is “an independent institute dedicated to the research of terrorism, information warfare, and other issues related to low-intensity political violence and gray-area phenomena.”
• Security Resource Net’s Counter Terrorism
  The Security Resource Net is the online site for the National Security Institute. The Counter Terrorism page provides links to information on topics such as, Terrorism Legislation and Executive Orders (primarily United States), Terrorism Facts, Commentary, Terrorism Precautions, and other related sources.

3. Major Treatises

• Chadwick, E. Self-determination, terrorism and the international humanitarian law of armed conflict. The Hague; Boston, Mass.: M. Nijhoff, 1996.
• Elagab, Omer Y., compiler. International law documents relating to terrorism. 2nd ed. London: Cavendish Pub., 1997.
• Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Counter Biological Terrorism Panel. Countering biological terrorism in the U.S. : an understanding of issues and status. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1999.
• Rubin, Alfred P. The law of piracy. Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Transnational, 1998.