Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio published a blog post entitled ‘Somali Pirates Are Back?” on Communis Hostis Omnium, an academic blog dedicated to discussions of maritime piracy.  In this post, Professor Sterio discusses the recent successful piracy attack on Aris 13, an oil tanker which had been sailing from Djibouti to Mogadishu.  This piracy attack was the first successful attack in 2017 and it may signal a return of Somali pirates.