The International Review of the Red Cross has published a report of a symposium organised jointly by the ICRC, PREMT and the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law in March 2018. The symposium, titled Emerging Military Technologies Applied to Urban Warfare, brought together governmental, military and academic experts from various… Read More »Urban warfare symposium report published

Researchers are launching a $9 million study which aims to embed ethics and the law into autonomous defence systems, such as self-driving military vehicles. The University of Queensland and University of New South Wales Canberra project represents the biggest investment into understanding the social dimension of military robotics anywhere in… Read More »Ethics meets machines in Australian-first

The debate about the way the international community should deal with autonomous weapon systems has been ongoing for some five years now. During this time, the focus has been on autonomy in what the ICRC has referred to as the ‘critical functions’ of a weapon system—its capacity to select and… Read More »Chris Jenks and Rain Liivoja: Machine autonomy and the constant care obligation

Experts from government, military and academia have convened in Brisbane to discuss the legal and practical implications for states of rapidly advancing weapons technologies. The International Committee of the Red Cross, the University of Queensland and the Program on the Regulation of Emerging Military Technologies co-hosted the seminar from 28… Read More »New technologies and the implications for states

International Law Studies have published three papers, authored by PREMT members, that are based on presentations given at the Future Wars and Public Conscience symposium held in Melbourne in May 2017: International Humanitarian Law and the Targeting of Data by Tim McCormack [PDF] Weapons Review Obligation under Customary International Law… Read More »International Law Studies publishes Melbourne Forum on Emerging Technologies