Here we go again! On 1 March 2024, Nicaragua instituted proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ, the Court) against Germany for complicity in genocide. This
marks another development in a series of disputes pending before the Court in the last four years, where it is asked to decide on whether a State has committed genocidal [...]
[Gary Corn is a Professor and Director of the Technology, Security and Law Program at American University Washington College of Law. He previously served as a military attorney
in the US Army, including as Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) of U.S. Cyber Command.] When it comes to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous [...]
[Anna Rosalie Greipl is a Research Assistant at the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights where she works for the Digitalization of Armed Conflict projects.
She is also a Ph.D. researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.] Legal debates on the military use of artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
[Jimena Sofía Viveros Álvarez serves as the Chief of Staff and Head Legal Advisor to Justice Loretta Ortiz at the Mexican Supreme Court as well as a member of the UN Secretary
General’s High-Level Advisory Body on AI. Her prior roles include national leadership positions at the Federal Judicial Council, the Ministry of Security, and the [...]
The Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam announces the 11th edition of the Annual IViR Summer Course on Privacy Law and Policy. The course will extend
over a five-day period from July 1 to 5, 2024, at de Burcht, a historic building in the center of Amsterdam. [...]
International courts and commissions of enquiry have been reluctant to find that forced displacement constitutes genocide. Forced displacement, in its various forms, is a war
crime (Rome Statute, Article 8(2)(a)(vii)) and a crime against humanity (Rome Statute, Article 7 (1)(d)), but not genocide. [...]
This volume offers a new point of entry into questions about how the law conceives of states and firms. Because states and firms are fictitious constructs rather than products
of evolutionary biology, the law dictates which acts should be attributed to each entity, and by which actors. [...]
[Dr Ingvild Bode is Associate Professor at the Centre for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. She is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded
project AutoNorms: Weaponised Artificial Intelligence, Norms, and Order (08/2020-07/2025) and also serves as the co-chair of the IEEE-SA Research Group on AI and [...]