Full Description
Maritime autonomous vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to radically alter all uses of maritime space, with technology progressing faster than the law. This book explores the current international legal framework and the options available to regulate maritime security in the face of emerging technologies.
MAVs are starting to play a role not only in policing and military security but also for the perpetration of maritime crimes. Through discussing the existing international legal framework for combating maritime security threats, the book will consider the use of MAVs by states for various security purposes and the potential dangers of MAVs in the hands of non-state actors. As the intersection of maritime technology with international maritime security law is crucial to a safe future for all, this timely book makes essential suggestions to adapt existing legal frameworks to match emerging technologies. Addressing critical questions such as who exercises jurisdiction when ships are remotely controlled, how jamming technology may be lawfully deployed and what force may be permissible during maritime law enforcement, this book identifies a diversity of current legal gaps and problems and makes suggestions as to how to rectify them.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of the law of the sea, maritime security and emerging technologies.
Contents
Part I: Overarching Issues
1. Maritime Autonomous Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities under International Law
2. Integrating Maritime Autonomous Vehicles into National Maritime Security Architecture
3. MASS, UNCLOS and the Flag State
Part II: Military Concerns, Military Activities and Navigational Rights
4. Sovereign Immunity of Unmanned Maritime Vehicles
5. Maritime Drones at War: Legal Issues Affecting Characterization and Use
6. The Future of Ocean Technology and Navigational Rights in the International Law of the Sea
7. Some Rules Applicable to Use of Long Range Underwater Maritime Autonomous Vehicles for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Purposes
8. The Legality of Electromagnetic Interference with Maritime Autonomous Vehicles
Part III: Responding to Illegal Activities at Sea
9. Maritime Law Enforcement in the Era of Autonomous Ships: Use of Force and Safeguards
10. Piracy and Maritime Terrorism Involving Autonomous Ships
11. Legal Implications for Maritime Autonomous Vehicles in Relation to Stowaways
12. The Use of Maritime Autonomous Vehicles in Fisheries Law Enforcement
Part IV: MAVs and New Frontiers in International Maritime Security Law
13. Environmental and Maritime Security, Civil Liability Regimes, and Maritime Autonomous Vehicles
14. Maritime Autonomous Vehicles in Polar Waters: Opportunities, Risks and Governance Implications
