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06 Apr Events and announcements: April 6, 2014
...October 2014. Proposals for papers should be submitted to the editors by July 31, 2014. Contact details are available on the TDM website. Announcements The ICRC has launched its first Research & Debate Cycle on New Technologies and the Modern Battlespace. In recent years, a wide array of new technologies has entered the modern battlefield, giving rise to new methods and means of warfare, such as cyber attacks, armed drones and robots. While there can be no doubt that IHL applies to them, applying pre-existing legal rules to new technologies...
13 Apr Beyond Anthropic’s Red Line: Human-in-the-Loop and the Illusion of Legitimacy in AI Decision-Support Systems
...(pre-establishment of lawful targets). However, this generalized decision-making operating in the battlefield’s inherent uncertainty may undermine the case-by-case judgment required by IHL. Alternatively, AI-DSS are computerized tools designed to aid humans in complex decision-making. These tools bring together data (e.g. satellite imagery, sensor data, or phone signals) to detect familiar patterns and present analysis and recommendations to decision makers. They use data driven AI-technologies such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning, which build an AI system by letting it “learn” through training data gathered from experience. Thus, contrary to earlier...17 Jul The Supposed “Errors” in the NYT Warsame Editorial
...war. But Mr. Warsame was not picked up on any recognized battlefield. The administration claims continuing authority for military detention, interrogation and trial. This applies not just to battlefield detentions, where it is often appropriate, but to detentions anywhere, and not just to personal involvement in violent attacks, but to a broad range of offenses directly or indirectly related to terrorism. That is far too broad a claim. This paragraph is absolutely correct. The US and al-Qaeda are not engaged in a non-international armed conflict (NIAC) in Somalia, nor is...26 Mar Should Scalia Recuse Himself from Hamdan?
...“He should remove himself when there is a reasonable doubt of his impartiality,” said Father Robert Drinan, a professor of law at Georgetown University and long-standing human rights campaigner, who teaches judicial ethics. “It should logically be a reason for his recusal but I don’t think he’ll do it … he’s so stubborn” said Drinan. Scalia is also reported as saying: “If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at my son,...05 Apr Drone Warfare and the Koh Speech – A Roundup of Links
...objection that drone strikes away from a battlefield constitute unlawful extrajudicial killing. Not so, Koh replies—a state “that is engaged in an armed conflict or in legitimate self-defence is not required to provide targets with legal process before the state may use lethal force.” The suggestion here is that a state that is the subject of sustained threat from an armed group may use lethal force when necessary to defend the lives of its citizens, even outside the context of a recognisable armed conflict. And furthermore that this right of...14 May ANZAC Day and Post Conflict Reconciliation
...coalition has participated. While by no means diminishing what ANZAC day means to Australia and New Zealand, all countries have their holidays commemorating wartime service and sacrifice. But what makes ANZAC day so compelling to me is how the relationship between former battlefield enemies has evolved. Flash forward from the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign to 1934. Attaturk, President of Turkey, purportedly authored a tribute to the ANZACS who fought, and died, in Turkey: Those heroes that shed blood and lost their lives…. you are now lying in the soil of a...02 Sep Syria Insta-Symposium: Stephanie Carvin–A Legal Debate Devoid of Consequences (or Bringing Practical Judgment Back In)
...may be held accountable for their actions.) Chemical weapons on the other hand are entirely indiscriminate. It is simply not possible, particularly in an urban environment like the suburbs of Damascus, to use them in a way that is by any standard legal. Further, the risk that the Syrian battlefield may turn into one where chemical weapons in a region that is already incredibly unstable from sectarian rivalries, the fallout of the Arab Spring and, yes, the 2003 intervention in Iraq, raises very real security concerns. Is having open chemical...
11 Jul All Wars Matter? On a Different Way for International Lawyers to Engage with Armed Conflicts
...are prominently platformed because they are “the ones applying IHL during real-life battlefield situations”. Centering operational considerations is what is considered necessary to ensure that the legal analysis is not “divorced from what is happening on the ground”. The perspectives of those at the receiving end of bombs, bullets, or exploding pagers are immaterial for a legal analysis that aims to be realistic. At best, the experiences and losses of war victims are a tragic reality that needs to be accepted as inevitable, without being seriously reckoned with or examined...