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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bots, And How I Learned To Start Worrying About Democracy Instead, Antonio F. Perez Jan 2019

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bots, And How I Learned To Start Worrying About Democracy Instead, Antonio F. Perez

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This essay reviewing Striking Power, John Yoo and Jeremy Rabkin's new book on the legal and policy implications of autonomous weapons, takes issue with the book’s assumptions and; therefore its conclusions. The essay argues that, because of technological and ethical limitations, discriminate and effective use of autonomous weapons may not serve as an adequate substitute for traditional manpower-based military forces. It further argues that traditional conceptions of international law could prove more durable than Yoo and Rabkin suggest, and finally it concludes by suggesting that a grand strategy relying primarily on technological elites managing autonomous weapons actually threatens to …


The Limits Of The Freedoms Act’S Amicus Curiae, Chad Squitieri Jan 2015

The Limits Of The Freedoms Act’S Amicus Curiae, Chad Squitieri

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The federal government’s power to engage in surveillance for national security purposes is extensive. In an effort to reform the current national surveillance regime, scholars have called for, among other things, the creation of a “special advocate” to counter the government’s arguments before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Feeling political pressure to improve an ever-unpopular national surveillance regime, lawmakers passed the USA FREEDOM Act (“Freedom Act”). Section 401 of the Freedom Act provides for the creation of an “amicus curiae,” a position that differs from earlier conceptions of a “special advocate” in important respects. This Essay examines those differences, and …


The Jerusalem Embassy Act Of 1995, Geoffrey R. Watson Jan 1996

The Jerusalem Embassy Act Of 1995, Geoffrey R. Watson

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Congress has voted to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. On October 24, 1995 - the day of the Conference on Jerusalem here at the Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America - Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. The President took no action on the Act, allowing it to enter into force on November 8, 1995. The Act states that a United States Embassy to Israel should be established in Jerusalem by May 31, 1999, and it provides for a fifty percent cut in the State Department's building budget …


State-Sponsored Domestic Terrorism: The Case Of Poland, Rett R. Ludwikowski Jan 1989

State-Sponsored Domestic Terrorism: The Case Of Poland, Rett R. Ludwikowski

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Political And Legal Instruments In Supporting And Combating Terrorism: Current Developments, Rett R. Ludwikowski Jan 1988

Political And Legal Instruments In Supporting And Combating Terrorism: Current Developments, Rett R. Ludwikowski

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A historian is a prophet of the past, not of the future, and a question about the future is not a historian's favorite one. With all these reservations, a historian is often compelled to trace past and present patterns in order to foresee the most likely arrangements of future events. The reflections presented below (in Part I) do not stem from the intention of the author to speculate about the prospects of Communism or discuss the alternative scenarios for the future of the Soviet bloc. They are limited to a few conclusions which can be drawn from the logical progression …


Aspects Of Terrorism: Personal Reflections, Rett R. Ludwikowski Jan 1987

Aspects Of Terrorism: Personal Reflections, Rett R. Ludwikowski

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