by Tobias Vestner, Sean Watts | Nov 17, 2022
Responsible AI Symposium – Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly developed, deployed, and used for defense and military purposes. This offers opportunities yet also poses challenges regarding its governance and regulation. While diplomatic efforts...
by Eric Jensen, Sean Watts | Oct 31, 2022
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...
by Sean Watts | Jul 26, 2022
Cyber Symposium – The Evolving Face of Cyber Conflict and the Jus ad Bellum: A Futurespective From 15 through 17 June 2022, the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare met in Washington, D.C. with the Tech, Law & Security Program at the American University,...
by Geoff Corn, Sean Watts | Jun 2, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Effects-Based Enforcement of Targeting Law The international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine tragically demonstrates that the European continent is still not immune from war. It also illustrates that the laws of war are only as...
by Sean Watts, Winston Williams | May 5, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Destructive Counter-Mobility Operations and the Law of War Decades of experience have greatly improved familiarity with, if not always fidelity to, law of war rules applicable to attacks on enemy forces. Less well appreciated is the law of...