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Hostis humani generis (Latin for 'an enemy of mankind') is a legal term of art that originates in admiralty law.Before the adoption of public international law, pirates and slavers were generally held to be beyond legal protection and so could be dealt with by any nation, even one that had not been directly attacked.
The term hostis humani generis (enemy of all mankind) was applied to pirates in the 1927 Lotus case of the Permanent Court of International Justice, the League of Nations equivalent of the International Court of Justice. [8] As such, there is universal jurisdiction over piracy on the high seas. Pirates are denied protection of the flag state ...
Peña-Irala created a new common law cause of action for torture under the ATS: "For purposes of civil liability, the torturer has become—like the pirate and slave trader before him—hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind." [1] The Court in Sosa does not find there is a similar cause of action for arbitrary arrest and detention. They ...
[1]: 5 Historian Hans Turley used the phrase Hostis Humani Generis (enemy of all mankind) to describe pirates. [32]: 28 Pirates became the "antiheroes" of history, and they did so consciously. Eventually the governments of the known world made villains of these sea raiders, calling them "blood lusting monsters," whose sole purpose was ...
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For All Mankind is an American science fiction drama television series created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi and produced for Apple TV+.The series dramatizes an alternate history depicting "what would have happened if the global space race had never ended" after the Soviet Union succeeds in the first crewed Moon landing ahead of the United States. [1]
Warning: The following contains spoilers for For All Mankind Season 4, Episode 5. Proceed at your own risk! The mystery of what happened to Danny Stevens on For All Mankind has been answered. As ...