New technologies and the law in war and peace / edited by William H. Boothby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boothby, William H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military weapons--Law and legislation.

Military weapons.

War (International law).

Technological innovations--Law and legislation.

Technological innovations.

Military art and science--Technological innovations.

Military art and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 504 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Policymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers, military strategists, academics, and all those interested in understanding the future want to know how twenty-first century scientific advance should be regulated in war and peace. This book tries to provide some of the answers. Part I summarises some important elements of the relevant law. In Part II, individual chapters are devoted to cyber capabilities, highly automated and autonomous systems, human enhancement technologies, human degradation techniques, the regulation of nanomaterials, novel naval technologies, outer space, synthetic brain technologies beyond artificial intelligence, and biometrics. The final part of the book notes important synergies that emerge between the different technologies and legal provisions, existing and proposed, assesses notions of convergence and of composition in international law, and provides some concluding remarks. The new technologies, their uses, and their regulation in war and peace are presented to the reader who is invited to draw conclusions.

Contents:

Introduction / William H Boothby

Regulating new weapon technologies / William H Boothby

The law on the conduct of hostilities / William H Boothby

Non-LOAC governed deployment of military technologies : some regulatory touchstones / Rob McLaughlin

Cyber capabilities / William H Boothby

Highly automated and autonomous technologies / William H Boothby

Military human enhancement / Ioana Maria Puscas

Legal aspects of human enhancement technologies / Heather A. Harrison Dinniss

Human degradation technologies and international law / Harry Aitken and Hitoshi Nasu

Nanomaterials : a tale of two applications / Kobi Leins and Diana M Bowman

Naval technologies / Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg

Outer space / Melissa de Zwart

Synthetic brain technologies : beyond artificial intelligence / David P. Fidler

Biometrics / William H Boothby

So, what do we make of all this? / William H Boothby.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jan 2019).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108609388

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.