This chapter explores the legal implications of autonomous weapon systems and the
potential challenges such systems might present to the laws governing weaponry and the …

Control. Human beings have an innate, insatiable desire to control the world around them.
Much of this desire comes from a sense of selfpreservation embedded in the human …

Debates over the international legal regulation of autonomous weapon systems (AWS)
range in their proposals from a total, preemptive ban to regulation under the existing process …

Autonomous systems will fundamentally alter the way wars are waged. In particular,
autonomous weapon systems, capable of selecting and engaging targets without direct …

AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS: THE ANATOMY OF AUTONOMY AND THE
LEGALITY OF LETHALITY Page 1 AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS: THE ANATOMY …

Much attention has been paid during the last couple of years to the emergence of
autonomous weapons systems (AWS), weapon systems that allow computers, as opposed …

From 1200 to 1500 AD on the Italian peninsula, a group of mercenaries called the
condottieri waged what has often been regarded as a form of non-lethal warfare. They were …

I. INTRODUCTION he United States' Department of Defense defines autonomous weapons
as “weapon systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further …

NOTE AT WAR WITH THE ROBOTS: AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS AND THE
MARTENS CLAUSE Page 1 NOTE AT WAR WITH THE ROBOTS: AUTONOMOUS WEAPON …

This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the emerging debate on autonomous
weapons. Autonomous weapons are capable, once programmed, of searching for and …