In order to be counted as autonomous, a weapons system must perform the critical functions
of target selection and engagement without any intervention by human operators. Human …

This Chapter analyzes the current discourse on the legality of autonomous weapons ('killer
robots') under international law, and seeks to offer a novel prism through which to discuss …

In response to a push from civil society to confront the legal and ethical dimensions of lethal
robotics, the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons convened a four-day …

Unmanned Predator and Reaper drones rove the skies above the Middle East and Africa.
They hover over a target for days and launch Hellfire missiles on a moment's notice. Robots …

Killer robots are systems that can choose targets without further human intervention. The US
should take the lead at the United Nations in creating specific new global norms and clarify …

The United States Army's Future Combat Systems Project, which aims to manufacture a
'robot army'to be ready for deployment by 2012, is only the latest and most dramatic example …

In War and Responsibility, John Hart Ely argues that Congress has willingly and cravenly
surrendered its rightful role as the branch responsible for determining when and the extent …

On 31 March 2003, US warfighters manned a checkpoint near Najaf, Iraq, mindful that a
suicide bomber had just killed four US soldiers at another Iraqi checkpoint. When a van …

The present debate over the creation and potential deployment of lethal autonomous
weapons, or 'killer robots', is garnering more and more attention. Much of the argument …

This essay considers how the development and fielding of autonomous weapon systems will
implicate compliance with the law of armed conflict (LOAC). It argues that assessing the …