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List of contents
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Table of cases; Table of treaties and other selected instruments; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Article 36 - background and historical development; 3. Interpretative methodology; 4. Interpreting article 36: The object of review; 5. Interpretation of Article 36 - The process and standard of review; 6. Weapons review obligation under customary international law; 7. Weapons reviews under the system of AP I - relationship between article 36 and article 82; 8. Challenges to article 36 reviews posed by autonomous weapons systems (aws); 9. Chapter 9: Challenges to article 36 reviews posed by (autonomous) cyber capabilities; 10. Concluding remarks; Index.
About the author
Natalia Jevglevskaja is a Research Fellow at University of New South Wales, Sydney. Previously, she was a Lecturer and a Research Fellow at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy where she focused on the application of international law to State operations in the cyber domain, and the law, ethics and value sensitive design of emerging military and security technology. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne.
Summary
International law requires that, before any new weapon is developed, purchased or modified, the legality of its use must be determined. This book offers the first comprehensive and systemic analysis of the law mandating such reviews and explores the challenges that emerging military technology poses to reviewing authorities.
