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Laws unmanned

Unmanned vehicles, legal, social and ethical issues:
a special issue of the JLIS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The precis (background) || The UNGA Report || Military Law Commentaries || Civilian Law Commentaries

 

 

 

The precis

JLIS vol 19 issue 1. Gogarty & Hagger,

The Laws of Man Over Vehicles Unmanned. This article provides an overview of the technological developments which have led to the roboticisation of military and civilian vehicle fleets. As a precis it is designed to inform the expert commentaries in the special edition. Articles in the special edition should therefore be read against this background document.

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UNGA

The UNGA Report

Interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, submitted in accordance with Assembly resolution 63/182

Professor Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur to the United Nations General Assembly on Targeted Killings will provide our lead article in the print volume.

Professor Alston will be basing his commentary on pp 10-22 of his recent report to the UNGA, which was also provided to expert commentators.

[Access report via United Nations website]

 

Expert commentaries

Military

Philip Alston

  • Lethal Robotic Technologies: The Implications for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law

    • Tim McCormack & Meredith Hagger

  • Regulating the Use of Unmanned Combat Vehicles in Armed Conflict: Are General Principles of International Humanitarian Law Sufficient?

    • Armin Krishnan

  • "UVs, Network-centric Operations, and the Challenge for Arms Control"

    • Rob McLaughlin

  • Unmanned Naval Vehicles at Sea: USVs, UUVs,and the adequacy of the law.

    • Mary Ellen O'Connell

  • "Seductive Drones: Learning from a Decade of Lethal Operations"

    • Noel Sharkey,

  • "Automating Warfare: Lessons Learned from the Drones"

    • Markus Wagner

  • Taking Humans Out of the Loop: Implications for International Humanitarian Law

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    Images for this special edition are courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons image archive at http://commons.wikimedia.org/

    Civilian

    Jim Davis

  • The (common) Laws of Man Over (civilian) Vehicles Unmanned (expert commentary by Emeritus Professor J. Davis)

    • Gabriel Hallevy

  • " Unmanned Vehicles - Subordination to Criminal Law Uner the Modern Concept of Criminal Liability"

    • Anna Masutti

  • The Regulation of Unmanned Air Vehicle Use in Common Airspace

    • Ugo Pagallo

  • Guns, Ships, and Chauffeurs: The Civilian Use of UV Technology and its Impact on Legal Systems

    • Stephen Wu

  • Unmanned Vehicles and US product liability law

    • Brendan Gogarty

  • Unmanned Vehicles, surveillance saturation and prisons of the mind

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