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25 Feb Weekday News Wrap: Monday, February 25, 2013
...the Congo. The Syrian opposition has decided to boycott international talks, saying that the world has turned its back on the war-torn nation and calling the lack of international action “shameful.” The US has sent 100 troops to Niger to construct a drone base from which Predator drones will operate. In other drone news, a recent study found that drone pilots are susceptible to the same bouts of depression, post-traumatic stress and anxiety as pilots of manned aircraft deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Dozens of people have been killed in...
10 Dec Symposium: A Duty to Prevent Genocide–Due Diligence Obligations among the P5 (Part One)
...due diligence standard. To answer this question, it is necessary to examine the economic and military capabilities of the “Great Powers” of the international order – in particular, the US. The US has the world’s largest economy and military. It has thousands of military bases in hundreds of countries on every continent in the world. And it has a blue water navy and a global fleet of fighters, bombers, and drones, among other assets, that are unrivalled by any other single state. In short, the US possesses the means to...02 Sep Jens Ohlin Joining Opinio Juris
...law, and offers a novel theory of rationality to explain why nations should comply with international law. Ohlin’s research also focuses on the laws of war, in particular the impact of new technology on the regulation of warfare, including remotely piloted drones and the strategy of targeted killings, cyber-warfare, and the role of non-state actors in armed conflicts. His books in this area include Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World (Oxford University Press 2012, with A. Altman & C. Finkelstein); Cyber-War: Law & Ethics for Virtual Conflicts...12 Jan Autonomous Legal Reasoning: Legal and Ethical Issues in the Technologies of Conflict
One of the highlights of my Fall semester was the opportunity to host a one-day workshop at Temple Law on how autonomous technology may impact the future of international humanitarian law (IHL) and the lawyers who practice it. With co-sponsorship from the International Committee of the Red Cross (specifically, Rob Ramey and Tracey Begley) as well as Gary Brown of Marine Corps University, we wanted to have an inter-disciplinary conversation on the way autonomy may implicate the practice of law across a range of new technologies, including cyberwar, drones, and...25 Oct Where is the International Law Criticism of the Libya Intervention?
...invasion of international law by twitter-ese (R2P??) is truly obnoxious. Mihai Martoiu Ticu I agree with Kevin. The commander-in-chief is a legal target, as the fellow combatants of the guys killed by drones, can legally bomb the CIA headquarters where the drones are driven, and Obama. Carthago I guess the point of the complaint filed by Gaddafi's family is that he was already a prisoner when he was killed, which makes the killing a war crime. Mihai Martoiu Ticu @Rhodri Posner is just a Machiavellian, who claims that U.S. should...07 Jun More Questions for Ken
Howard Gilbert Pakistan can prosecute an American for killing someone in Pakistan, and Article 51 national self-defense is not a legal defense against a charge of murder brought under Pakistani domestic law. There is nothing the US can do here, so the CIA would do well to maintain secrecy and people involved in such operations would do well to vacation in India instead. That is one of the reasons why the premise of the hypothesis is flawed. Currently the CIA operates drones inside Pakistan with the consent and cooperation of...23 Jun Remembering Mike Lewis
...family, but I kept up with his scholarship. I didn't agree with his position on drones but he certainly had a rare credibility to hold them based on his direct experience. The last time I saw him, I ran into him briefly at the AALS hiring conference in Washington DC in October 2014. It was a brief conversation--he never told me about his illness. I am stunned that he is gone now, and regret that we didn't get the chance to have one last good talk. Fair winds and following...08 Apr Let’s Call Killing al-Awlaki What It Is — Murder
...unmanned drones, where there is no need for possible identification when a pilot is shot down, it makes no difference whether the drone's controller is in uniform or not. In essence, on pragmatic grounds, I see a material difference between a CIA officer on the ground shooting al-Aulaqi - where the full panoply of IHL obligations should apply - and the killing him via a drone strike. At minimum, IHL on the subject is not crystal clear. Contrast the ambiguity of IHL -- which, remember, is only operationalized in U.S....