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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.
Terrorist Watchlists, Jeffrey D. Kahn
Terrorist Watchlists, Jeffrey D. Kahn
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This chapter assesses the legal history and policy development of the U.S. government's system of terrorist watchlists and the institutions established to create and use them. Watchlisting is in fact an old practice given new meaning by technological change and the societal impact of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Statutes and judicial precedents from an earlier era on which the first post-9/11 watchlists were built were not made to regulate the expanded uses of the new watchlists and presented few if any constraints on their development. Civil litigation has both revealed the inner workings of terrorist watchlists and spurred …