Sentences with phrase «law of armed conflict»

«The Nigerian Army through this action want to assure the nation and international community that we shall not condone cases of violation of laws of armed conflict in the discharge of our constitutional responsibilities.»

A second aim of the chapter is to describe the relevant law of armed conflict principles applicable to new weapon systems, with a particular focus on the unique legal challenges posed by autonomous weapons.

After concluding that the cyber «attacks» against the nation of Georgia in 2008 did not constitute «armed attack» under current definitions of the term in the law of war, a report from the NATO Co — operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) concluded that «new approaches to traditional LOAC [law of armed conflict] principles need to be developed.»

«And then we have a legal review that says that engaging this target comports with the laws of armed conflict and that engaging in these circumstances is permissible according to those laws, and once we've established all of those things we go to the government of Iraq and ask them for permission to strike that building, and they'll say yes or no, and they do say both, depending on the structure.

Consequently, the two tend to be evaluated independent of one another, such that, as Professor Karma Nabulsi has noted «it is possible to break all the rules while fighting a just war or to be engaged in an unjust war while adhering to the laws of armed conflict.»

In the spirit of the fundamental legal precept of pacta sunt servanda, the principles of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) are binding upon parties to it and must be performed in good faith.

What ought to be their evidentiary value and legal status under international criminal law, international law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law?

Recent events in eastern Ukraine, Palestine, and Syria should remind us that there is such a thing as the International Law of Armed Conflict or the International Humanitarian Law, which aims to limit the effects of conflict and protect civilians against the abhorrent nature and terrors of war.

[U] nder customary international law as it presently stands, a State is not deprived of immunity by reason of the fact that it is accused of serious violations of international human rights law or the international law of armed conflict.

In your first few years as a Judge Advocate, you might be fully lititgating a criminal trial (a.k.a court martial), defending the U.S. Government against a taxpayer whose house got damaged by falling aircraft parts, or briefing troops on «shoot / don't shoot rules of engagement» and laws of armed conflict.

The Laws of Armed Conflicts: A Collection of Conventions, Resolutions and Other Documents 3 - 20 (3d rev. ed., 2004).

When the United States Court of Military Commission Review considered Bahlul in 2011 it did not consider the ex post facto issue sustainable, as they considered the accused's conduct an offense under the law of armed conflict.

The commission pointed to the lack of any treaty or customary international law that would allow membership in a terrorist organization when engaged in armed conflict with a nation to provide any status under the law of armed conflict.

In addition, the Commission will examine the question of whether the mechanism for examining and investigating complaints and claims raised in relation to violations of the laws of armed conflict, as conducted in Israel generally, and as implemented with regard to the present incident, conform with the obligations of the State of Israel under the rules of international law.

But, Marine lawyers serve in many other capacities as well: command legal advice, ethics, law of armed conflict, fiscal law, etc..

Foley Hoag has been the counsel of choice for sovereign states on issues such as international treaties, international investment law and dispute resolution, delimitation of maritime and land boundaries, sovereign and diplomatic privileges and immunities, international environmental law, the use of force and the law of armed conflict, international trade and sanctions, and human rights.»

Autonomy in the Battlespace: Independently Operating Weapon Systems and the Law of Armed Conflict

This 15 - page working draft chapter for the publication New Technologies and the Law of Armed Conflict.

New Technologies and the Law Of Armed Conflict (Hitoshi Nasu & Robert McLaughlin eds.)

Keywords: autonomy, autonomous, weapon systems, robot, law of armed conflict, international humanitarian law, artificial intelligence, drone

The legal analysis will outline both how autonomous weapon systems would need to be designed for them to be deemed lawful per se, and whether the use of autonomous weapons during hostilities might be prohibited in some manner under the law of armed conflict.

Wagner analyzes independently operating weapon systems and the challenges that autonomous weapon systems pose with respect to compliance with the law of armed conflict.

«Examining Autonomous Weapon Systems from a Law of Armed Conflict Perspective» by Maj. Jeffrey S. Thurnher, U.S. Naval War College, 11 Jun. 2013.

He concludes that current technology is incapable being operated within the existing framework of the law of armed conflict.

Several of the law panelists may have agreed with each other that autonomous weapons are «not illegal weapons prohibited under the laws of armed conflict,» but this was not a view shared by all participants at the conference.