The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Law of Armed Conflict

Ronald T. P. Alcala is Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.Eric Talbot Jensen is Professor of Law and Brigham Young University Law School.

• Foreword by Brigadier General R. Patrick HustonContributorsIntroduction PART ONE Compliance and AccountabilityChapter 1. Regulating New Weapons TechnologyRebecca Crootof Chapter 2. Assessing LOAC Compliance and Discourse as New Technologies Emerge: From Effects Driven Analysis to "What Effects?" Laurie R. Blank Chapter 3. Leveraging Emerging Technology for LOAC ComplianceEric Talbot Jensen & Alan Hickey Chapter 4. Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: The Overlooked Importance of Administrative Accountability Laura A. Dickinson PART TWO PrecautionsChapter 5. Law-of-War Precautions: A Cautionary NoteSean Watts Chapter 6. The Other Side of Autonomous Weapons: Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance IHL Compliance Peter Margulies Chapter 7. High Tech Civilians, Participation in Hostilities, and Criminal Liability: Reconciling U.S. Perspectives Lieutenant Colonel Matthew T. King PART THREE DistinctionChapter 8. Emerging Technologies and the Principle of Distinction: A Further Blurring of the Lines between Combatants and Civilians? Michael W. Meier Chapter 9. Who Did It? Attribution of Cyber Intrusions and the Jus in Bello William Banks Chapter 10. The Law of Armed Conflict Implications of Covered or Concealed Cyber Operations: Perfidy, Ruses, and the Principle of Passive Distinction Colonel Gary P. Corn & Commander Peter P. Pascucci Chapter 11. Invisible Soldiers: The Perfidy Implications of Invisibility Technology on Battlefields of the FutureSephora Sultana & Hitoshi Nasu Chapter 12. Attack Decision-Making: Context, Reasonableness, and the Duty to ObeyGeoffrey S. Corn Index