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02 May Weekly News Wrap: Monday, May 2, 2016
...a serious crisis with neighboring Russia, a report commissioned by the Finnish government said on Friday. French and U.S. jets destroyed an Islamic State site in Iraq used by the hardline Sunni Muslim insurgents to build large quantities of bombs and vehicles for suicide attacks, the French Defense Ministry said on Sunday. A German government official denied on Sunday a magazine report which said Berlin might end its unconditional support for Israel due to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s increasing frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies. Americas U.S.-led coalition drones struck...
06 May New Technologies Symposium: Introduction
...but in the former raise issues as to the status of the vessel as a warship, a problem which has its parallels in the air domain. Similarly, the criticality of security of underwater cables for the efficient operation of the Internet shows how maritime security technologies are of vital importance in ensuring that systems on which modern life depends continue to operate undisturbed. The out-dated nature of the law covering maritime drones and cables is matched in the law as it applies to hostilities in outer space. One might have...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...29 Sep A Quick Thought on the “Surrender” Option
...say, “I hear you guys are looking for me.” No special forces guys, Predator drones, or air strikes are going to take him out if he does this. In other words, this situation is, in conceptual terms, a fairly close analogue to the one in which cops surround a building and say, “Come out with your hands up or we’ll shoot.” Ben and I disagreed about the “surrender” option at the time, and I continue to find it unconvincing even with regard to al-Aulaqi. But a post by Glenn Greenwald...09 Jun Events and Announcements: June 9, 2013
...to the implementation of the treaty and its international humanitarian law aspects. More information is here. ALMA and the Radzyner School of Law of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya would like to invite you to the next session of the Joint International Humanitarian Law Forum, on June 19, 2013. This month they host Prof. Eugene Kontorovich to discuss his new article “Jurisdiction over Israeli Settlement Activity in the International Criminal Court” and Dr. Ben Clarke to present his new article “Arming drones for law enforcement: challenges and opportunities for the...12 Dec Al Qaeda in IKEA
...as follows: “[As civil libertarians wearing ‘rose colored glasses’ would have it,] [t]he AUMF triggered the president’s commander-in-chief power, which enables him to detain enemy combatants indefinitely and kill them with drones and other weapons….” As an initial matter, hard to figure out what Eric means, “the AUMF triggered” the President’s Commander-in-Chief power. The President is CINC in wartime and not, and whatever powers Article II of the Constitution provides him (more on which anon) I figure they’d exist whether Congress “triggers” them or not. More to the point, it...