GC IV Commentary Series – Brain Computer Interface-Assisted Interrogations and Articles 27, 31, & 32

GC IV Commentary Series – Brain Computer Interface-Assisted Interrogations and Articles 27, 31, & 32

GC IV Commentary Series – Brain Computer Interface-Assisted Interrogations and Articles 27, 31, & 32 Editors’ note: The following series considers ICRC’s 2025 updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention. Rosa-Lena Lauterbach, Liisi Adamson, and Sean...
Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers

Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers

Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers Few issues have attracted more attention in contemporary targeting law than reverberating effects from attacks. Much discussion has focused on attacks against traditional...
Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry

Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry

Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry Editors’ note: This is the tenth post in a series dedicated to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the questions of human oversight and legal accountability under international humanitarian law....
CyCon 2026 Series – New Technologies, Armed Conflict, and International Humanitarian Law

CyCon 2026 Series – New Technologies, Armed Conflict, and International Humanitarian Law

CyCon 2026 Series – New Technologies, Armed Conflict, and International Humanitarian Law Editors’ note: This post introduces a series derived from panels and discussions that took place in 2026 at the 18th annual International Conference on Cyber Conflict...
Using (and Abusing) Polling: The Martens Clause and Autonomous Weapons

Using (and Abusing) Polling: The Martens Clause and Autonomous Weapons

Using (and Abusing) Polling: The Martens Clause and Autonomous Weapons Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s recent article, “Abhorrence and Autonomy: On the Place of Public Attitudes in the Debate on Militarised Artificial Intelligence” published in...
Compliance by Design IV: LOAC in the European Defense Industry

Compliance by Design IV: LOAC in the European Defense Industry

Compliance by Design IV: LOAC in the European Defense Industry Editors’ note: This is the ninth post in a series dedicated to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the questions of human oversight and legal accountability under international humanitarian law....