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...
Ukraine Symposium – Doxing Enemy Soldiers and the Law of War

Ukraine Symposium – Doxing Enemy Soldiers and the Law of War

Ukraine Symposium – Doxing Enemy Soldiers and the Law of War This post was prepared in academic consultation with Major Inna Zavorotko, a lawyer with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Legal Division. A fuller treatment of wartime doxing, including in the context of...
Ukraine and the Defender’s Obligations

Ukraine and the Defender’s Obligations

Ukraine and the Defender’s Obligations In a recent post, I expressed my concern over the ability of the modern law of armed conflict (LOAC) to continue to not only regulate hostilities, but also do it in a way that survives actual near-peer conflict. I concluded: The...
Reentering the Loop

Reentering the Loop

Reentering the Loop The warfighting advantages of using lethal autonomous systems, and the potential costs of not using them, seem to guarantee their role in future armed conflict. This post argues that optimizing their effectiveness involves not only improving their...
Year Ahead – 2022

Year Ahead – 2022

Year Ahead – 2022 In our look back at 2021, affiliates of the Lieber Institute discussed some of the law of armed conflict issues that made an impact in the past year. In the present post, Professors Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, Chris Jenks, Laurie Blank,...