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03 Aug Weekend Roundup: July 17 – August 2, 2013
...NYTimes also published the documents leaked by Bradley Manning. Following Bradley Manning’s conviction for espionage, Kevin corrected a common misperception about the meaning of “bad faith” in the Espionage Act. He also updated us on Libya’s latest admission that it intends not to cooperate with the ICC, and added that Libya’s representative is arguably in violation of the ICC’s Code of Professional Conduct. Kevin will not be updating us anymore on Crossing Lines though. As always, we listed events and announcements and provided weekday news wraps. Thank you to our...29 Jun Weekend Roundup: June 22-28, 2013
...in nicely with Peter’s post on a new sovereigntist essay in Foreign Affairs. As Peter points out, Katerina’s findings may suggest that the tide is shifting on international law. Roger reviewed Andrew Guzman’s book Overheated, following Hari Osofsky’s review last Friday. Kevin followed up on the fallout of Judge Harhoff’s letter, called NBC’s new show Crossing Lines an “ unmitigated disaster ” and was sceptical about the implications, according to John Dugard’s article, of the ASP’s President’s failure to table a letter on Palestinian statehood. He also recommended a new...20 Jul Weekend Roundup: July 13-19, 2013
...least Crossing Lines is even more confused about the ICC’s jurisdiction, although Kevin admitted to finding this week’s episode quite interesting. Sometimes fiction can teach international lawyers something though, as Chris explored in this post on what political science fiction can bring to international law. What isn’t science fiction though is the growing market in which hackers sell computer vulnerabilities they have discovered. Chris posted about the sometimes perverse incentives to regulate this market, particularly once governments get involved. In other posts, Kevin accused the US of applying double standards...
26 Feb The Pentagon/Anthropic Clash Over Military AI Guardrails
...for another round of negotiations next week on AWS, the message sent by this confrontation is clear: the battle over AI in war is not theoretical, academic or confined to the halls of diplomatic negotation…it’s playing out in real time with huge implications. Next week during the CCW session, some states will likely attempt to keep the status quo, others will attempt to propose guardrails and draw lines. Whether those lines are created and held, and whether they are respected and for how long and by whom, will have profound...14 May Resisting Erosion
...new frameworks of affiliation and community might take. Do we need an international right to political participation? Or a political arm to NAFTA, for example? Along similar lines, I would ask Peter whether in redrawing lines of membership we must accept globalization-driven developments as they have happened, or whether we should actually use immigration and nationality law, and trade and foreign policy, for that matter, to strengthen the attachments to the nation state, or to resist certain aspects of the erosion you describe? As John points out, there is a...