[Flóra Merész is a Public International LL.M. graduate from Leiden University, a former intern in the ‘Regulation in the public interest: Disruptive technologies in peace and security’ strand of the T.M.C. Asser Institute, currently working as a Legal Fellow at Just Access e.V.] Deepfakes not only blur reality in our everyday life but also increasingly on the battlefield. From fake videos...
[Noah Sylvia is a Research Fellow for C4ISR and Emerging Tech at the Royal United Services Institute.] As advanced digitalised systems have become ubiquitous in modern warfare, the policy community primarily engages with these technologies through discussion of Decision Support Systems (DSS). DSS (or sometimes AI-DSS) encompass the range of digital systems used in decision-making processes, especially those incorporating some type...
[Jeroen van den Boogaard is a legal counsel for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a lecturer in international humanitarian law at the University of Amsterdam. He writes this post in his personal capacity. This is the seventh and final piece in a series of analyses on aspects of the recent adoption of the 2024-2026 CCW GGE LAWS report.] In...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris. This post is the sixth in a series of analyses on aspects of the recent adoption of the 2024-2026 CCW GGE LAWS report.] Introduction This post traces the trajectory of the concepts of responsibility and accountability across successive iterations of the GGE's Rolling...
[Netta Goussac is an Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Associate Partner at Lexbridge. Netta has taken part in the GGE since 2017 and was a member of the Australian delegation during the second session in 2026. The views expressed in this post are her own and do not represent the Australian Government or other...
[Anna Andersson is a Senior Researcher in International Law at The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Anna was a member of the Swedish delegation to the GGE LAWS 2023-2026. This post is, however, written in her capacity as a researcher and does not reflect Sweden’s position or understanding. This post is the fourth in a series of analyses on aspects...
[Sally Longworth is a Senior Lecturer in Public International Law at Stockholm University and Researcher in public international law at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). The views expressed in this post are her own and do not reflect the position or understanding of Sweden. This post is the third in a series of analyses on aspects of the recent...
[Rain Liivoja is a Professor at the University of Queensland Law School, and a Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Law and Security. This post is the second in a series of analyses on aspects of the recent adoption of the 2024-2026 CCW GGE LAWS report.] What exactly are we talking about when we discuss autonomous weapons? This has been an...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris. Rain Liivoja is a Professor at the University of Queensland Law School, and a Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Law and Security. Netta Goussac is an Associate Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Associate Partner at...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law and Managing Editor of Opinio Juris.]The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) released its 18-page report to the Human Rights Council on 17 September 2026. In the report, among other findings, the Mission outlines reasonable grounds to believe that the United...
Like most academics these days, I am very concerned about students misusing large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and ClaudeAI when they write papers for me. I don't teach very often in my current position, but I do supervise masters theses. And there have been a number over the past few years that I suspected were written, in whole or...
[Subinoy Mustofi Eron is Design Director at Netra News and a co-founder of Activate Rights, a Bangladesh-based digital rights collective. Georgia Edwards is Visual Investigations Training & Partnerships Manager at WITNESS. Dean Issacharoff is the creator of VSIN, an AI powered visual investigations platform.] Introduction In July 2024, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis took to the streets in an uprising against Sheikh Hasina’s government....