Jai Galliott and Rain Liivoja at the 25th ANZSIL Annual Conference

Jai Galliott and Rain Liivoja recently attended the 25th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law in Canberra. The theme of the conference was Sustaining the International Legal Order in an Era of Rising Nationalism. Jai spoke on a panel dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the 1977 Additional Protocols to the … Read more

PREMT holds interdisciplinary symposium

On 29 and 30 May, PREMT organised an interdisciplinary symposium on the ethical, legal and social implications of emerging military technologies, titled Future Wars and Public Conscience. The symposium was attended by invited participants from ten Australian and four US universities, two think tanks, the Red Cross movement, and the Australian Department of Defence. The program … Read more

New Technologies and the Modern Battlefield: A Humanitarian Perspective

Speaker: Dr Neil Davison, International Committee of the Red Cross Time: Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 12pm–1pm Location: Boardroom, Level 10 (access via Level 9), Melbourne Law School (185 Pelham St, Carlton) RSVP: Light lunch will be provided. New weapon systems, such as unmanned systems with increasing levels of autonomy and cyber weapons, have proliferated … Read more

Negotiating a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons: A Conversation with Treasa Dunworth and Tilman Ruff

In March 2017, 132 states convened in New York to begin negotiations on a comprehensive multilateral treaty to outlaw nuclear weapons. Join Treasa Dunworth and Tilman Ruff for a conversation on the progress towards a nuclear weapons ban treaty and the challenges facing the treaty’s negotiators. Time: Tuesday, 23 May 2017, 5pm–6.30pm, Location: Room 920, … Read more

Tallinn Manual 2.0 Launched

Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations has been published by Cambridge University Press. The Manual, produced at the invitation of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, identifies 154 black letter rules governing cyber operations and provides extensive commentary on each rule. Tim McCormack participated in the drafting of … Read more

International Review of the Red Cross publishes papers by Rain Liivoja and Tim McFarland

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross, focusing on ‘The Evolution of Warfare’, features two papers by PREMT members. Rain Liivoja contributed an essay titled ‘Technological Change and the Evolution of the Law of War’ and Tim McFarland published an article on ‘Factors Shaping the Legal Implications of Increasingly Autonomous Military … Read more

Kobi Leins and Rain Liivoja speak in Seoul

Kobi Leins and Rain Liivoja are attending a regional meeting on New Technologies & Weapons, Means and Methods of Warfare: Challenges for International Humanitarian Law in Seoul from 22 to 23 September 2016. The workshop is organised jointly by the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea and the International Committee of the … Read more

Rain Liivoja teaches at the University of Helsinki

From 22 to 28 August, Rain Liivoja is coordinating (with Dr Jarna Petman) the 29th Helsinki Summer Seminar on International Law at the University of Helsinki. He will also give several lectures during the seminar. The theme of this year’s summer seminar is Law, War and New Technology. Other speakers include Prof Martti Koskenniemi (University … Read more

Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict published

The Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict, edited by Rain Liivoja and Tim McCormack, has been published. The book provides a unique perspective on the law of armed conflict, covering all the key aspects of the law as well as identifying developing and often contentious areas of interest. The handbook features chapters by … Read more