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10 Dec Symposium on Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law: Looking Down and Looking Away – The Aerial Perspective in Investigations of Armed Conflict and Genocide
...juxtaposing the work of Forensic Architecture with the US military’s assessments of civilian casualty allegations. The aerial perspective is powerful and seductive, but it also has important limitations. First, bird’s eye view is unfamiliar to human eyes: we are not used to seeing from above. As a consequence, when we look at images taken by satellites or drones, we often rely on explanations contained in captions, annotations, and arrows superimposed on images. Second, the view from above is associated with abstraction, power, and dehumanization. The drone does not see faces....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 The Closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran: Considerations over the Law of the Sea and Law of Naval Warfare
...attack against Iran, at least three tankers were struck by missiles or drones. On March 2, 2026 the US flagged oil tanker Stena Imperative was hit while at port in Bahrain resulting in the killing of one shipyard worker and injury of two others. Art. 51 and 52 of the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions regarding the general protection of civilians and civilian objects applies to the law of naval warfare. According to the San Remo Manual Rules 40-41, the merchant vessels including the tankers flying the US...
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...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)....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...18 Apr Kony 2012: Seven Questions about Social Media Campaigns and International Law
...public about the legal concept of “genocide.” When Wikileaks disseminated its viral “Collateral Murder” video it doctored the film, confusing the audience about the complexity of events on the ground and about the distinction between “murder,” “war crimes” and “lawful targeting.” Assange’s later conflation of “civilian casualties” with “war crimes” in his promotion of the Afghan War Diaries dataset put civilian harms on the agenda, but promoted a fallacious understanding of what “war crimes” are. The public debate over drones is equally confused on these points – a process that...