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13 Dec “Guilty Robots” in NYT Magazine Ideas 2009 Issue
...discussion is about battlefield robotics in the sense of “autonomous” firing systems – not the current robotics question of human controlled, but remote platform unmanned combat vehicles, Predators and drones. I will try to put up a post soon noting several new papers on the targeted killing and UCV-drone issues in international law, including new papers on SSRN by Mary Ellen O’Connell, Jordan Paust, and others – I’ll try to do a roundup of recent papers on the subject (once past grading my corporate finance and IBT finals, that is)....20 Mar Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
...since a November 26th attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. In other drone news, Jack Goldsmith opines at Foreign Policy about the legality of the use of drones in the conflict with al-Qaeda. ICRC President Jacob Kellenberger met yesterday with Russian foreign affairs minister, Sergei Lavrov to discuss the humanitarian situation in Syria. Bloomberg covers the meeting here. Peru cancelled a British Royal Navy visit out of solidarity with Argentina in its dispute with the UK over the Faulkland Islands. Convicted Khmer Rouge jailer Duch testifies against his former bosses in...10 Oct 15 Years Later: A History of the Forever War and the Laws of War (Part 2 of 2)
...history of major contradictions, paradoxes, potentials, and limits, is far less teleological, or unitary, than what many have said so far. Sometimes they, the work of the laws of war and that of peacemaking, overlap and work cooperatively, whereas at other times they operate completely independently, or even work in ways going directly against each other, with occasionally potentially dangerous implications in light of relatively new technological (e.g. drones, autonomous weapons), legal (such as the 9/11 AUMF, the responsibility to protect), and certain ideological developments (the rise of emergency doctrines)....28 May U.N. Special Rapporteur Offers Limited Pushback Against CIA Drone Strikes
...strikes against people suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, complicating the Obama administration’s growing reliance on that tactic in Pakistan. Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said Thursday that he would deliver a report on June 3 to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva declaring that the “life and death power” of drones should be entrusted to regular armed forces, not intelligence agencies. He contrasted how the military and the C.I.A. responded to allegations that strikes had killed civilians by mistake....22 May Guest Post: Rona on Mohammed v. Ministry of Defence and Detention in NIAC
[Gabor Rona is the International Legal Director of Human Rights First.] What is the source of the power to detain in an armed conflict that is not between states (non-international armed conflict, or NIAC)? Where is the relevant law on grounds and procedures for such detention found? Torture and drones aside, this is probably the most vexing, most controversial, and most significant of debates to come out of the “war on terror.” And it has been fired up anew in Serdar Mohammed v. Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 1369 (QB),...18 Apr More on Baltasar Garzon
...drones. Other countries are moving to restrict access to claims by judges of universal jurisdiction, including in Spain, true. But my read of those is that rather than plainly stripping out the category, instead the move – as in Spain – is to require highly discretionary political assent from someone, whether the Ministry of Justice or Attorney General or someone similar with political accountability. (Bear in mind that the magistrate position that Garzon occupies is something between a judge and an investigating district attorney in the American system – it...04 May Weekly News Wrap: Monday, May 4, 2015
...Spiegel reports that the US Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany, is a central and indispensible element in Barack Obama’s controversial use of drones in the war against terror. Americas Costa Rica has issued an emergency alert after a ship carrying 180 tons of ammonium nitrate sunk off the country’s Pacific coast, releasing the massive amount of toxic cargo into the ocean. The death toll from an air strike by U.S.-led forces on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo has risen to 52 including seven children, a group monitoring the...09 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
...his pre-trial detention. The UN is seeking to deploy surveillance drones over Congo, but neighboring Rwanda is not happy with this proposal. In other news about the DRC, the M23 rebels have declared a unilateral ceasefire ahead of a second round of peace talks with the government. Over at Justice in Conflict, Mark Kersten writes more about the US’s Rewards for Justice program and implications with America’s relationship with the ICC. A senior White House official has said the US would consider leaving no American troops in Afghanistan after the...