Table of Contents

Part I: 1. Introduction William H. Boothby; 2. Regulating new weapon technologies William H. Boothby; 3. The law on the conduct of hostilities William H. Boothby; 4. Non-LOAC governed deployment of military technologies: some regulatory touchstones Rob McLaughlin; Part II: 5. Cyber capabilities William H. Boothby; 6. Highly automated and autonomous technologies William H. Boothby; 7. Military human enhancement Ioana Maria Puscas; 8. Legal aspects of human enhancement technologies Heather A. Harrison Dinniss; 9. Human degradation technologies and international law Harry Aitken and Hitoshi Nasu; 10. Nanomaterials: a tale of two applications Kobi Leins and Diana M. Bowman; 11. Naval technologies Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg; 12. Outer space Melissa de Zwart; 13. Synthetic brain technologies: beyond artificial intelligence David P. Fidler; 14. Biometrics William H. Boothby; 15. So, what do we make of all this? William H. Boothby.

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Explains how existing and proposed law seek to tackle challenges posed by new and emerging technologies in war and peace.

About the Author

William H. Boothby is an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and former Air Commodore. He retired in 2011 as Deputy Director of Legal Services for the Royal Air Force. He is the author of several leading texts on the law of armed conflict, including Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict (2nd Edition, 2016) and The Law of War: A Detailed Assessment of the US Department of Defense 'Law of War Manual' (Cambridge, 2018) with Professor Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg. He has been a member of Groups of Experts that addressed Direct Participation in Hostilities that produced the HPCR Manual of the Law of Air and Missile Warfare, the 2013 Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare and the Leuven Manual on the International Law Applicable to Peace Operations and teaches in Australia, Denmark and Geneva.