Latest in Law of War
A summary of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law’s special edition on the law of armed conflict.
A short primer on arguments over the law and ethics of autonomous weapon systems, appearing in The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology, just out from Oxford University Press (July 2017).
The American Society of International Law Annual Meeting's 19th Grotius Lecture will be delivered by Harvard University's David Armitage, author of the acclaimed new book, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas. The Distinguished Discussant will be Emory University's (and Lawfare book review editor) Mary Dudziak. Open to the public, free of charge on Wednesday, April 12, in Washington DC
Geoffrey Corn, one of the Lawfare Book Review editors, offers a retrospective review essay on Jean Renoir's classic 1937 film set in World War I, La Grande Illusion
War-Algorithm Accountability, a new briefing report from the Harvard Law School Program on Law and Armed Conflict, offers an intriguing, original argument about the interaction of accountability, law, and machine algorithms in the context of military systems (including but not limited to autonomous weapons) in armed conflict.