Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Abstract
This article briefly describes why the State parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons rejected human rights groups’ call for a ban on so called “killer robots.” This article contends that the international community resoundingly rejected this argument at the first ever experts meeting on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) because it ignores the wide range and longstanding use of LAWS and presupposes their future development while failing to acknowledge even the possibility that LAWS may facilitate greater protection of both military and civilians.
Publication Title
Small Wars Journal
Document Type
Article
Keywords
killer robots, lethal autonomous weapons, LAWs, Kellog-Briand, robot, ban, Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, CCW, Phalanx, Boomerang
Recommended Citation
Chris Jenks, A KellogBriand Pact for the 21st Century, SMALL WARS J. (2014), available at https://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/a-kellog-briand-pact-for-the-21st-century, archived at https://perma.cc/E3K4-NPFA.
