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International Law

Silence and the Use of Force in International Law

Dustin Lewis, Naz Modirzadeh, Gabriella Blum Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 4:00 AM

Editor's Note: This piece is crossposted on Lawfare and EJIL:Talk!

States frequently take actions and make statements that implicate international law. But because they do not—and, indeed, could not—express a view on each such act or statement by all other states at all times, silence seems to be the norm, rather than the exception, in international relations.

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence and the Resort to Force

Ashley Deeks Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 1:38 PM

A recent post on the New York Times’s At War blog begins with this hypothetical scenario:

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Brief Reviews

Perennial Issues in the International Law of the Use of Force

Kenneth Anderson Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 2:23 PM

The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law (edited by the highly distinguished Cambridge University international law scholar Marc Weller) labors under two handicaps before ever reaching the book's content.

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International Law: Self-Defense

Sometimes a Name is Only a Name

Jack Goldsmith Fri, Apr 8, 2016, 12:57 PM

Daniel Bethlehem says that my claim that the Obama administration has embraced the Bush doctrine of preemption for anticipatory self-defense “misses an essential element.” The essential element I missed was that the 2002 National Security Strategy that first announced the preemption doctrine “invented new language and, in doing so, suggested that the United States was moving away, with deliberate thought and careful

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