Category: Military Law
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu mentioned in the MIT Technology Review
SCuLE’s Professor Hitoshi Nasu was quoted in an article titled “How to fight a war in space (and get away with it)” published on 26 June 2019 in the MIT Technology Review. The article evaluates a growing possibility of using destruction of foreign satellites as an act of war. It is pointed that, to some…
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu contributed an article on Weapons Testing in Just Security
Professor Hitoshi Nasu and Professor Michael Schmitt (University of Reading) contributed an article titled “A Threat or A Warning: Russia’s Weapons Testing in Space” in Just Security. The article is set against the backdrop of the Space Security Exchange meeting between the US and Russia. The two nations exchanged the views on space threats, policies…
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu on lethal autonomous maritime systems
SCuLE’s Professor Hitoshi Nasu and David Letts (Australian National University College of Law) wrote an article titled “The Legal Characterization of Lethal Autonomous Maritime Systems: Warship, Torpedo, or Naval Mine?” published by the Stockton Center for International Law. The article examines legal status of lethal autonomous maritime systems (LAMS). LAMS, unmanned maritime platforms with lethal…
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu contributed an article on Weapons Testing in Just Security
Professor Hitoshi Nasu and Professor Michael Schmitt (University of Reading) contributed an article titled “A Threat or A Warning: Russia’s Weapons Testing in Space” in Just Security. The article is set against the backdrop of the Space Security Exchange meeting between the US and Russia. The two nations exchanged the views on space threats, policies…
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu mentioned in The Economist
Professor Hitoshi Nasu was mentioned in the article published by The Economist on 15 August 2020. The article titled “An arms race is brewing in orbit” points out that there is a growing possibility to use anti-satellite weapons. Countries like America, Russia and China have been testing new methods of attack such as lasers and…
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu contributes chapter on artificial intelligence and international humanitarian law
Professor Hitoshi Nasu contributed a chapter to Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law edited by Eve Massingham and Annabel McConnachie. The chapter, titled “Artificial Intelligence and the obligation to respect and to ensure respect for IHL”, examines application of artificial intelligence technology for military purposes and its legality. In this context, Professor Nasu evaluates the…
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu on The Perfidy Implications of Invisibility Technology on Battlefields of the Future
Professor Hitoshi Nasu contributed a chapter titled “Invisible Soldiers” to The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Law of Armed Conflict edited by Ronald T.P. Alcala and Eric Talbot Jensen. The chapter considers interpretation of the Law of Armed Conflict in the context of the use of invisibility technology in warfare. Recent technological developments point that…
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Prof Hitoshi Nasu mentioned in the MIT Technology Review
SCuLE’s Professor Hitoshi Nasu was quoted in an article titled “How to fight a war in space (and get away with it)” published on 26 June 2019 in the MIT Technology Review. The article evaluates a growing possibility of using destruction of foreign satellites as an act of war. It is pointed that, to some…