LAWE 634

Catalog description

Focuses on technologies that create uncertainties in the law of armed conflict and national security law. Basic understanding of these legal regimes. Explores complicated international and domestic regulatory issues including private actors control global communications systems, social media, satellites, and currencies, all of which are vulnerable to manipulation and increasingly autonomous systems and vehicles, such as drones and driverless vehicles, that can be weaponized by states or non-state actors to devastating effect. Develops the intellectual flexibility required to understand and respond to the challenges posed by new and emerging weapons or weaponizable technologies; identify and address related ethical concerns; and be better able to anticipate and respond to future developments. (No prior knowledge of the law of armed conflict, national security law, or technology is necessary.)