Big Data and Armed Conflict

Laura A. Dickinson is the Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor and Professor of Law at George Washington University. Her work addresses national security, human rights, and international humanitarian law. She has authored numerous articles in leading law reviews, including the American Journal of International Law and the Southern California Law Review. Her prize-winning book, Outsourcing War and Peace, outlines a framework to protect public values in an era of privatization. She has served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense and as a senior policy adviser at the U.S. Department of State.Lieutenant Colonel Edward W. Berg serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He earned a BA in History from Emory University in 1995 and an MA in Philosophy from Georgia State University in 1998. He earned a JD in 2004 at William and Mary School of Law. He earned an LL.M. in Military Law in 2010 and graduated from the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS in 2013. In 2019, he earned an LL.M. in Comparative Law at Columbia University in New York.

• Foreword Shane R. Reeves IntroductionLaura A. Dickinson SCENARIOMark A. Visger PART ONE: Operations Below the Armed Conflict Threshold and the Jus ad Bellum Chapter 1: Big Data: International Law Issues Below the Armed Conflict ThresholdMichael N. Schmitt Chapter 2: Threatening Force in CyberspaceDuncan B. Hollis & Tsvetelina van Benthem Chapter 3: <"Attacking> " Big Data: Strategic Competition, the Race for AI, and the International Law of Cyber SabotageGary P. Corn & Eric Talbot Jensen Chapter 4: Attacking Big Data as a Use of ForceIdo Kilovaty PART TWO: Military Operations and International Humanitarian Law Chapter 5: Big Data: International Law Issues During Armed ConflictMichael N. Schmitt Chapter 6: Garbage In, Garbage Out: Data Poisoning Attacks and Their Legal ImplicationsMark A. Visger Chapter 7: Data Centers and International Humanitarian LawFrançois Delerue Chapter 8: The Duty of Constant Care and Data Protection in WarAsaf Lubin Chapter 9: Cyborg Soldiers: International Law and Military Brain-Computer InterfacesNoam Lubell & Katya Al-Khateeb PART THREE: Humanitarian Operations and Atrocity Investigation Chapter 10: Corporate Data ResponsibilityGalit A. Sarfaty Chapter 11: Leveraging Big Data for LOACBeth Van Schaack PART FOUR: International Human Rights Law Chapter 12: The Datafication of Counter-TerrorismFionnuala Ni Aolain Index