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...Hamdi. If you think adhering to precedent is question-begging, then you do not respect the rule of law because you find respect for the rule of law to be illogical. It seems to be the case that you consider foreign enemy combatants on foreign battlefields who kill American civilians abroad to be a part of the "We the People" that the Constitution protects, and, unremarkably, I can find no support for that in any of the Anti-Federalist papers that you cite. So I have no idea what Constitution you pretend...

...period of his liberty of an enemy combatant that would have been forfeit on the battlefield. From a utilitarian perspective, I would suggest that it is exceedingly unwise to treat an enemy combatant as a civilian criminal defendant. Under civilian criminal law, you are deciding whether to punish the perpetrator after the fact. Thus, one can afford to release ten guilty people so that one innocent person is not punished. However, the equation fundamentally changes when you are at war. Holding an enemy combatant as a prisoner of war is...

...have had no analysis of IDF proceedures, or any analysis of the battlefield reality faced by the IDF, or any attempts to determine whether any specific actions on the battlefield can be explained without criminal intent. And no evidence of any intent whatsoever, beyond statements by random politicians with no power to influence anything and no evidence that any soldier is influenced by such statement.s Not even a single incident has been analysed in any depth to establish any plausible criminal wrongdoing. In particular, the problem with South Africa's genocide...

...to society and/or to innovation. (Uh, you know, issues having to do with African cyberpunk, DNA hacking and stuff like that. And don’t even let Ken Anderson (1, 2, 3, etc.) or me (1, 2, etc.) get started on robots…) So I was happy to see that the current issue of Scientific American looks at “The Future of Science: 50, 100, and 150 Years from Now.” Heady stuff. Ubiquitous computing, biotech, colonizing Mars, possibly even my long-awaited flying cars. But reading this with the cool eye of a lawyer (as...

...the economies of resource-exporting nations. What would happen to most of Africa? What would it do to the cost of iron ore? And what about refining and manufacturing? If we spend the money to harvest iron in space, why not outsource the other related processes as well? Imagine a future in which solar-powered robots toil in lunar or orbital factories. “On the one hand, it’s great,” Brother Consolmango said. “You’ve now taken all of this dirty industry off the surface of the Earth. On the other hand, you’ve put a...

...military advantage through weapons research. Instead of green technology, the competitionists invent killer robots. Instead of cyber security, their researchers find new ways to destroy through computer applications. China builds coal-fired power plants to pay for a navy bigger than the U.S.’s. The contrast with the non-polar world could not be greater. The pandemic is leading to de-coupling from hegemonic rivalry. Figures like Putin, Trump, or Xi, are not found among those committed to solidarity. And the solidarists are everywhere. Their names reach headlines without stoking cults of personality, including,...

...already made a new year’s resolution to post more about robots, but promised to cover other areas as well. His first post of the year covered adulteration of extra virgin olive oil, showing that there is no limit to potential international law questions. Kristen Boon also reflected on the role of international law in settling the East China Sea dispute. If you need to catch up with the news of the past fortnight, our weekday news wraps may be helpful. As always, we also provided our weekly events and announcements...

...development and use of AI where its potential benefits can outweigh its risks.  No technology, including weapons and weapons systems, is infallible.  The approach to accountability for unwanted outcomes should be no different than with any other means or method of warfare.             Hyperbolic calls to ban “Killer Robots” specifically, or militarized AI generally, have gained little to no traction among States.  This should come as no surprise given the potential AI offers to exponentially increase the speed, efficiency, and accuracy of operations and reduce the inherent and infamous fog of...

...So, when the behemoth Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) chose to tackle this theme in its blockbuster movie Captain America: Civil War (Civil War) in the form of a treaty, I was intrigued, apprehensive, and cautiously excited. The Movie and the Marvel Cinematic Universe For readers not familiar with the MCU, it is a mammoth media franchise covering a shared fictional universe. Derived from hundreds of Marvel comic books, it centers on a cast of superheroes, gods, sentient artificial intelligence powered robots, powerful fighters, and devoted but talented sidekicks (for the...

...recession had gone worldwide. The full text of the blog post, as it happened, was pretty nearly, ” The recession has gone global.” It linked to a news article of about three paragraphs. This gives me pause. And yet there are plenty of blog posts that I do think citable, including some of my stuff on proportionality and the laws of war, just war theory, theorizing about Michael Walzer’s work, and, of course, robots. Many bloggers, including folks here at OJ, are much more academic in their approach to blogging...

...framework for counterterrorism – which is to say, a framework of domestic law for things like detention, interrogation, FISA, etc. My paper, which I’ll post up if Brookings will let me once complete, is forward looking with respect to the tactics of counterterrorism, specifically targeted killing, particularly by Predators and advancing robotic technologies. (Yes, dear readers, you knew I would work around to robots eventually.) My fundamental observation to the Obama administration is that, to judge by Campaign Obama and Administration Obama, it embraces targeted killing as a useful method...

...areas not really related to law, but raise topics appropriate to CTLab. You should check out CTLab – it has wonderful academic symposia, an active blog, and many fascinating features that go far outside of the usual international law frame on group violence. Anyway, I am devoted to OJ, and want to be clear that joining up with Volokh is not at all about leaving OJ. Alas, there will be many, many a post devoted to robots and war, and I’ll start talking about microfinance and development finance again. So...