The international legal regime pertaining to maritime piracy has developed and grown over the years. These changes were prompted due to lacunas in the legal system, which surfaced when the codified laws were implemented. The problem of maritime piracy flares up every few years, especially with the modernization of boats and weapons. Dealing with maritime piracy involves coordinated and orchestrated efforts at different levels including, domestic, regional and international. Anti-maritime piracy operations have been very successful in controlling and reducing piratical activities, for example, attacks on merchant vessels off the Somalian coast have considerably reduced. Given the success of such anti-maritime piracy operations, it becomes imperative to underscore some legal issues that may stand out and flag the gaps in the international maritime piracy legal regime. Identifying such legal issues will help the future lawmakers in deciding if such issues need resolution, and does it require further development or amendment of the current maritime piracy legal regime.

This article seeks to understand some legal aspects surrounding 'green shipping' in India. Pollution caused by ships in their daily operations or when they are scrapped is causing concern world over. That necessitates ways and means of addressing the issue as well as future of greener shipping operations. Coastal shipping has being neglected in India for a long time. We also need adequately comprehend importance of coastal shipping and the role it could play in the economic development of India. This study tries to establish a relationship between 'green shipping' and possible growth of coastal shipping in India. Green shipping is the need of the future for providing green and sustainable transport of goods around the Indian coast as well as beyond it. Use of LNG as fuel and advantages India will have in switching over to LNG, international regulations governing LNG ships and their transposition in domestic laws as well as construction, operation and other facilities associated with LNG fuelled ships in India have been sought to be addressed.

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The United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea regime makes it incumbent upon the capturing state to effectively prosecute the apprehended pirates as per their domestic laws.Many states, including India, have not developed piracy-related domestic legislation; therefore, the domestic courts face various substantive and procedural challenges during trial.Indian judiciary relies on various criminal law statues to prosecute maritime pirates, none of which defines piracy as a crime in India. The Indian government has recently introduced the Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill, 2019. This paper seeks to examine the prosecution of maritime pirates in India and identify the existing gaps within the legal framework. Further, this paper discusses the Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill, 2019 in detail to determine if it can achieve effective prosecution of maritime pirates by filling in the gaps of the current Indian criminal law regime.