Ukraine Symposium – What’s in a Name? Getting it Right for the Naval “Drone” Attack on Sevastopol

Ukraine Symposium – What’s in a Name? Getting it Right for the Naval “Drone” Attack on Sevastopol

Ukraine Symposium – What’s in a Name? Getting it Right for the Naval “Drone” Attack on Sevastopol Editors’ Note: As part of our 2023 Year Ahead series, our Board of Advisors member Prof. Dr. Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg presciently identified legal issues...
Ukraine Symposium – The “I Want to Live” Project and Technologically-Enabled Surrender

Ukraine Symposium – The “I Want to Live” Project and Technologically-Enabled Surrender

Ukraine Symposium – The “I Want to Live” Project and Technologically-Enabled Surrender In their ongoing armed conflict, the Russian Federation and Ukraine have engaged in sustained information campaigns using leaflets, social media posts, radio appeals, text messages,...
Year Ahead – Emerging Technologies and the Collection of Battlefield Evidence

Year Ahead – Emerging Technologies and the Collection of Battlefield Evidence

Year Ahead – Emerging Technologies and the Collection of Battlefield Evidence In a recent series of posts on responsible artificial intelligence (AI), various authors (including Chris Jenks) have discussed the role of “responsibility” in the context of using of...
Year Ahead – The Legal Status of Unmanned Maritime (Naval) Systems: A Never-Ending Story?

Year Ahead – The Legal Status of Unmanned Maritime (Naval) Systems: A Never-Ending Story?

Year Ahead – The Legal Status of Unmanned Maritime (Naval) Systems: A Never-Ending Story? An international workshop held at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., from 20 to 21 March 2012, was to discuss the legal status of unmanned maritime systems (UMS)...
Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully

Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully

Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully Time is overdue for moving on from discussing whether autonomous weapons should be banned to looking at how to ensure autonomous weapon systems (AWS) are used in a...
Coding the Law of Armed Conflict: First Steps

Coding the Law of Armed Conflict: First Steps

Coding the Law of Armed Conflict: First Steps [Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed in the Lieber Studies volume The Future Law of Armed Conflict, which was published 27 May 2022. For a general introduction to this volume, see Professor...