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Plea Bargaining And International Criminal Justice, Jenia I. Turner
Plea Bargaining And International Criminal Justice, Jenia I. Turner
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Over the last two decades, plea bargaining has spread beyond the countries where it originated — the United States and other common law jurisdictions — and has become a global phenomenon. Plea bargaining is spreading rapidly to civil law countries that previously viewed the practice with skepticism. And it has now arrived at international criminal courts.
While domestic plea bargaining is often limited to non-violent crimes, the international courts allow sentence negotiations for even the most heinous offenses, including genocide and crimes against humanity. Its use remains highly controversial, and debates about plea bargaining in international courts continue in court …
The Gathering Swarm: The Path To Increasingly Autonomous Weapons Systems, Chris Jenks
The Gathering Swarm: The Path To Increasingly Autonomous Weapons Systems, Chris Jenks
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Unbeknownst to many, Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWS) have existed for decades, but they have largely been defensive and anti-material. However, as increasingly advanced defensive LAWS, such as complex swarming systems, become more prominent, states will assuredly develop ways to counter, including offensive LAWS. Certainly, the near-term developmental focus of such systems will be on operational environments in which there are relatively low risk of injury or death to civilians or untoward incidents in general, but it is a matter of when, not if, these systems will be widely used in direct combat situations. As such, LAWS are a frequent topic …
A Matter Of Policy: United States Application Of The Law Of Armed Conflict, Chris Jenks
A Matter Of Policy: United States Application Of The Law Of Armed Conflict, Chris Jenks
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
To what extent does the law of armed conflict (LOAC) apply to the United States military fighting in armed conflicts? Though the question seems straightforward enough, the answer is anything but. This article explains, in general, why the answer is imprecise and unsatisfying as applied to the most prevalent type of contemporary armed conflict, non-international. More specifically, this article argues that the U.S. government's primary response of claiming to apply LOAC as a matter of policy when and where that law wouldn't otherwise apply is superficially persuasive but not substantively responsive.