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0000-0002-7628-1596
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United States Military Academy
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International Law (excl. International Trade Law) | Law | International Trade Law | Conflict of Laws (Private International Law) | Law not elsewhere classified |
Defence and Security Policy | Emerging Defence Technologies | Expanding Knowledge in Law and Legal Studies | Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified | National Security | International Organisations | Law Reform
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-12-2021
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 24-07-2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-11-2012
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 03-08-2013
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 14-10-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-07-2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 16-03-2015
DOI: 10.1017/S0020589315000056
Abstract: With the increased awareness of national security concerns associated with unauthorized disclosure of State secrets, the legal protection of State secrets on national security grounds has assumed renewed significance, while raising ever growing concerns about its impact on freedom of information. Between these competing policy concerns lies a discrete area of law that defines and protects State secrets from unauthorized communication or disclosure. This article aims to ascertain the actual State practice concerning State secrets protection on national security grounds across different countries, and examines common challenges to the delimitation of national security grounds for State secrets protection in light of the changing national security environment.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 24-07-2015
Abstract: Due to the continuing expansion of the notion of security, various national, regional and international institutions now find themselves addressing contemporary security issues. While institutions may evolve by adjusting themselves to new challenges, they can also fundamentally alter the intricate balance between security and current legal frameworks. This volume explores the tensions that occur when institutions address contemporary security threats, in both public and international law contexts. As part of the Connecting International with Public Law series, it provides important and valuable insights into the legal issues and perspectives which surround the institutional responses to contemporary security challenges. It is essential reading for scholars, practitioners and policy makers seeking to understand the legal significance of security institutions and the implications of their evolution on the rule of law and legitimacy.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 14-12-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-07-2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 10-03-2021
DOI: 10.1093/LAW/9780198827276.003.0003
Abstract: This chapter discusses how, since the end of the Cold War, the global security agenda has not only widened but also deepened, moving the focus of security concerns away from the sovereign State to include other objects such as the environment, social groups, and regional institutions. The process of widening and deepening the global security agenda is premised upon the theory of securitization. Since its emergence, this theory has provided a critical perspective to security studies and contemporary debates about security governance. After briefly reviewing the trajectory of the theoretical debate, the chapter examines the institutional practice of securitization, with particular focus on the practices of the United Nations, European Union, African Union, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as major international and regional security institutions. The understanding of how global and regional policy issues have been securitized in institutional practices is of particular significance to the development of international law because of the ways in which the process of securitization operates within, or interacts with, the existing framework of international law. The role of national security in the process of securitization of a global policy agenda also reveals normative constraint within the framework of international law.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 08-12-2016
DOI: 10.1163/18754112-02001004
Abstract: Japan’s new security legislation, enacted on 30 September 2015 and came into force on 29 March 2016, has expanded the scope in which the Japanese Self-Defence Forces ( sdf ) personnel can use weapons while engaging in a peacekeeping mission. Among other changes, it authorises the sdf to use weapons in order to protect civilians (civilian protection mandate) or to come to the aid of geographically distant units (“come-to-the-aid” mandate). While this policy itself deserves approbation, its implementation by the sdf in peacekeeping operations under the new security legislation requires careful consideration. This article examines the legal quagmire they will encounter due to the recent jurisprudential development and associated debate regarding the regulation of the use of force in peacekeeping under international law and the circumstances where legal obligations may arise to use force in order to protect civilians. It concludes by suggesting the need for Japan to form its own legal position in relation to each of the debatable legal issues and to develop national rules of engagement for each peacekeeping operation they participate in with a view to effectively communicating its legal position in operational terms to its forces.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 06-2009
DOI: 10.1093/JCSL/KRP017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-07-2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 22-08-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S2044251313000210
Abstract: Recently increased tensions across East Asia over territorial and maritime disputes show glimpses of brinkmanship. However, the past experiences of Western colonization and Japan's imperialism within the region add complexity to those disputes challenging our understanding of legal debates surrounding territorial and maritime disputes. This article examines the extent to which the relevant rules of international law are capable of providing “justice” by accommodating the unique historical contexts in the region in settling highly politically sensitive territorial and maritime claims. It finds that the existing rules of international law are more than capable of accommodating the peculiar historical contexts of East Asia in the resolution of territorial and maritime disputes, whilst acknowledging that certain ambiguities in the law are contributing to some of the current tensions that have arisen over these disputes.
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
Date: 24-12-2013
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-04-2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 22-11-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S2044251312000288
Abstract: The principle of non-intervention remains a significant legal issue, particularly in Asia, for regional efforts to address a wide range of transnational security issues in the absence of a regional collective security mechanism. This article revisits the principle of non-intervention with a particular focus on the application and interpretation of the principle by Asian states for the purpose of identifying whether and in what respect an Asian approach or approaches can be found, and considering its implications for regional efforts to address transnational security issues. This article finds that the emerging regional norm of comprehensive security requires clear demarcation between the principle of non-intervention and the norm of comprehensive security, as well as an institutionalized mechanism to ensure that regional efforts to address transnational security issues are not used as a disguised form of intervention and that the fear of intervention does not impede those regional efforts.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 24-06-2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-02-2021
DOI: 10.1093/HRLR/NGAA060
Abstract: National authorities have responded with different regulatory solutions in attempts to minimise the adverse impact of fake news and associated information disorder. This article reviews three different regulatory approaches that have emerged in recent years—information correction, content removal or blocking, and criminal sanctions—and critically evaluates their normative compliance with the applicable rules of international human rights law and their likely effectiveness based on an evidence-based psychological analysis. It identifies, albeit counter intuitively, criminal sanction as an effective regulatory response that can be justified when it is carefully tailored in a way that addresses legitimate interests to be protected.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 07-11-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 03-08-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2022
Publisher: Brill
Date: 17-12-2021
DOI: 10.1163/18757413_02401005
Abstract: A dynamic shift in global power balance and the rapid pace of technological advances are likely to pose an existential threat to the United Nations (‘UN’) and its collective security system. The political impasse at the Security Council has undermined its ability to address international security crises in recent years. Proceeding with the assumption that the UN collective security system ceases to perform its function, this article provides a thought experiment ( Gedankenexperiment ) on how international law might operate and evolve in the absence of collective security enforcement. The primary focus of this inquiry is to what extent the fundamental structure of international law might revert to the pre- Charter era and how the modern development of international law achieved under the UN Charter might survive and set a course for normative restructuring. This article tests the hypothesis that the receding institutional capacity to contain destabilising behaviour will have a normative impact on the existing rules of international law, insofar as their modern development has depended upon the institutional framework for collective security. It does so by examining the normative impact in the following three areas of international law: (1) jus ad bellum (2) the legal authority of regional institutions for collective security and (3) restrictions on military support to a belligerent involved in international armed conflict under the law of neutrality. It finds that the legal implications of the demise of collective security are likely to be limited, with a gradual shift in State practice and an associated change in opinio juris as States interact with specific instances of security threats.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 21-05-2008
DOI: 10.1093/PHE/PHN013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 24-07-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Brill
Date: 09-12-2021
DOI: 10.1163/26660229-03901006
Abstract: This article considers the readiness of international law to protect States from information operations that are launched as the means of disrupting government response to the spread of infectious diseases, such as COVID -19. It examines both the external- and internal-facing dynamics for international regulation of misinformation, with the focus on the principle of non-intervention as an external regulation of misinformation under general international law and freedom of expression guaranteed under human rights treaties for internal regulation.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-04-2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 11-10-2019
DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780190915322.003.0011
Abstract: The idea of invisibility has long tantalized the human imagination. Once considered fantastical, recent advances have edged technology closer to the possibility of invisibility. On the battlefield, invisibility technology could be used to cloak soldiers and military equipment without restraining the mobility or manoeuvrability of troops and equipment. These developments necessitate a consideration of how the Law of Armed Conflict should be interpreted and applied to the use of invisibility technology in warfare. In particular, invisibility raises questions concerning how to determine when the use of invisibility technology has crossed from lawful ruse to prohibited act of perfidy. This chapter explores how the use of invisibility to conceal the causal connection between an act of perfidy and an attack may fall within a grey area of the law.
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
Date: 24-12-2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 25-09-2012
DOI: 10.1093/JCSL/KRS026
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 23-05-2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 23-04-2009
DOI: 10.1093/JMP/JHP021
Abstract: The United Nations Scientific, Education, and Cultural Organization Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (UDBHR) expresses in its title and substance a controversial linkage of two normative systems: international human rights law and bioethics. The UDBHR has the status of what is known as a "nonbinding" declaration under public international law. The UDBHR's foundation within bioethics (and association, e.g., with virtue-based or principlist bioethical theories) is more problematic. Nonetheless, the UDBHR contains socially important principles of technology transfer and transnational benefit (articles 14, 15, and 21). This paper is one of the first to explore how the disciplines of bioethics and international human rights law may interact in the UDBHR to advance the policy relevance and health impact of such principles. It investigates their normative ancestry in the UDBHR, as well as relevant conceptual differences between bioethics and public international law in this respect, and how these may be relevant to their conceptual evolution and application.
Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff
Date: 26-01-2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S181638311200077X
Abstract: The introduction of nanotechnology into our civil life and warfare is expected to influence the application and interpretation of the existing rules of international humanitarian law. This article examines the challenges posed to international humanitarian law by the widespread use of nanotechnology in light of four basic rules of international humanitarian law: (1) the obligation to ensure the legality of weapons (2) distinction (3) proportionality and (4) precaution. It concludes by identifying three areas of concern, which arise from widespread use of nanotechnology, for the application of international humanitarian law.
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
Date: 24-12-2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 11-04-2019
Publisher: Zenodo
Date: 2019
Location: Germany
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2011
End Date: 2013
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2014
End Date: 2014
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2011
End Date: 12-2013
Amount: $65,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2014
End Date: 12-2015
Amount: $284,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 04-2013
End Date: 05-2017
Amount: $159,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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