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This is part one of a three-part series, covering the different aspects of international law and public opinion. With the number of armed conflicts on the rise, the question is whether law or public opinion can save us from war becoming the new normal. To discuss this topic we have invited Mary Ellen O’Connell and Frank Rusciano. Moderator for this event will be Christian Borch. The event is in cooperation between the Norwegian Nobel Institute, The Norwegian Atlantic Committee and the Nobel Peace Center. Our guests: Dr.Mary Ellen O’Connell, holds a Ph.D. International Law, JD, MSc. International Relations, B.A. History. Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution--Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. She is currently a Fulbright researcher at the Norwegian Nobel Institute where she is writing, The Art of Law in the International Community. O’Connell’s research focuses on international law and the use of force, international dispute resolution, and legal theory. She has published extensively, including The Power and Purpose of International Law, was a vice president of the American Society of International Law, and chaired the Use of Force Committee of the International Law Association. She has been a Marshall Scholar, a Humboldt Scholar, a Templeton Foundation fellow, and a MacArthur Foundation grantee. She served as a professional military educator, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and a practicing lawyer in Washington, D.C. and comments regularly in the media. Dr. Frank Rusciano holds a Ph.D., M.A. in Political Science, B.A. Government and English Litterature. Rusciano is a Professor of Political Science and Director of Global Studies at Rider University. He is a three-time Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow in Policy Studies at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and in Advanced International Studies at the Nobel Institute in Oslo Norway. He has published several books, including World Opinion and the Emerging International Order, which one reviewer called “the best book yet on the impact of the global flow of information on people’s perceptions, beliefs, and values.” He has also published over 45 articles and book chapters on world opinion, social choice, and comparative and global politics. His latest book is World Opinion and the Northern Ireland Peace Process. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ford Foundation, and the Kettering Foundation. His present work studies the foundations of international community. For more in-depth information on this topic, we recommended reading On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. The book can be purchased at our museum store at the Nobel Peace Center. Photo: Gro Matland Nevstad / The Norwegian Nobel Institute
This is part one of a three-part series, covering the different aspects of international law and public opinion. With the number of armed conflicts on the rise, the question is whether law or public opinion can save us from war becoming the new normal. To discuss this topic we have invited Mary Ellen O’Connell and Frank Rusciano. Moderator for this event will be Christian Borch. The event is in cooperation between the Norwegian Nobel Institute, The Norwegian Atlantic Committee and the Nobel Peace Center. Our guests: Dr.Mary Ellen O’Connell, holds a Ph.D. International Law, JD, MSc. International Relations, B.A. History. Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution--Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. She is currently a Fulbright researcher at the Norwegian Nobel Institute where she is writing, The Art of Law in the International Community. O’Connell’s research focuses on international law and the use of force, international dispute resolution, and legal theory. She has published extensively, including The Power and Purpose of International Law, was a vice president of the American Society of International Law, and chaired the Use of Force Committee of the International Law Association. She has been a Marshall Scholar, a Humboldt Scholar, a Templeton Foundation fellow, and a MacArthur Foundation grantee. She served as a professional military educator, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and a practicing lawyer in Washington, D.C. and comments regularly in the media. Dr. Frank Rusciano holds a Ph.D., M.A. in Political Science, B.A. Government and English Litterature. Rusciano is a Professor of Political Science and Director of Global Studies at Rider University. He is a three-time Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow in Policy Studies at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and in Advanced International Studies at the Nobel Institute in Oslo Norway. He has published several books, including World Opinion and the Emerging International Order, which one reviewer called “the best book yet on the impact of the global flow of information on people’s perceptions, beliefs, and values.” He has also published over 45 articles and book chapters on world opinion, social choice, and comparative and global politics. His latest book is World Opinion and the Northern Ireland Peace Process. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ford Foundation, and the Kettering Foundation. His present work studies the foundations of international community. For more in-depth information on this topic, we recommended reading On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. The book can be purchased at our museum store at the Nobel Peace Center.
Feedback on “the Cyberloquium,” theme music, affirmative action, oral arguments, podcast apps, Scalia’s opinion announcement in Glossip, the parliamentary system and complexity, postal banking, killer robots, villains and angels in history, and whether philosophy matters much in law. This show’s links: Oral Argument 0: Who Is Your Hero? Amicus podcast: 2015 Term Preview SCOTUSblog’s page for Fisher v. UT Austin Oral Argument 27: My Favorite Case The Oyez page for Glossip v. Gross, containing Breyer’s announcement and Scalia’s response (linked at Part 4) Overcast Oral Argument 56: Cracking and Packing (guest Lori Ringhand) Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks; Nancy Folbre’s review for the NY Times; Oral Argument 9: Torches and Pitchforks Oral Argument 75: Air Gap (guest Mary Ellen O’Connell) Oral Argument 76: Brutality (guest Al Brophy) Oral Argument 77: Jackasses Are People Too (guest Adam Kolber)
We start with some feedback and thoughts on the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, criminal law, and Christian’s brush with Upstream Color greatness. Also Joe’s thank-you notes. Then we’re joined by Mary Ellen O’Connell to talk about international law, weapons, hacking, Stuxnet, war, and killer robots. Mary Ellen maintains that the law we have is perfectly capable of dealing with what seem like new challenges. This show’s links: Mary Ellen O’Connell’s faculty profile and writing Danielle Allen, Our Declaration The Declaration of Independence Upstream Color Dan Goodin, Meet “badBIOS,” the Mysterious Mac and PC Malware that Jumps Airgaps Oral Argument 70: No Drones in the Park (guest Frank Pasquale) Mary Ellen O’Connell, 21st Century Arms Control Challenges: Drones, Cyber Weapons, Killer Robots, and WMDs About Stuxnet Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, including Article 51, which Mary Ellen references Mary Ellen O’Connell, Banning Autonomous Killing Special Guest: Mary Ellen O'Connell.
Drones and robots are or soon will be watching you, driving you, delivering to you, and maybe even trying to kill you. They’re loud, nosy, deadly, useful, safe, and dangerous. There are many different kinds of them and many different kinds of us. What should we do when, say, a man shoots a camera-bearing drone out of the sky above his property? Or when a creditor remotely shuts down your car when you’re behind on your payments but, unfortunately, while you’re on the highway? For some answers and more questions, we chat with delightfully deep-thinking Frank Pasquale. This show’s links: Frank Pasquale’s faculty profile and writing Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society Oral Argument 41: Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo) Robot or Not?, a podcast of one to two-minute episodes Jeff John Roberts, Man Arrested for Shooting $1,800 Drone Won’t Apologize, Cites Privacy DJI, drone purveyor, which company’s name Christian managed to mangle, Joe-style Michael Froomkin and Zak Colangelo, Self-Defense Against Robots and Drones Frank Pasquale, Air Traffic Control for Drones Jacque v. Sternberg Homes, Inc. Desnick v. ABC United States v. Causby Hinman v. Pacific Air Transport See, e.g., Field v. Google (on copyright claims against Google for search results) Margot Kaminsky, Drone Federalism: Civilian Drones and the Things They Carry Thomas Frey, 55 Jobs of the Future Timothy Lee, Amazon Has a Plan for Thousands of Drones to Fill the Sky Yoko Kubota, Google Reshoots Japan Views after Privacy Complaints The FAA’s interpretive rules for recreational drones (line-of-sight and less than 400 feet, among other restrictions) and proposed rules for commercial drones (including weight limitations, line-of-sight, daylight-only, less than 500 feet, and more) Foster v. Svenson (finding no statutory privacy right to prevent artistic show of photographs taken unsuspecting through open windows via telephoto lens) AP, Enrique Iglesias Recovering After Fingers Sliced at Concert, video Patrick Hubbard, 'Sophisticated Robots': Balancing Liability, Regulation, and Innovation 99% Invisible 170: Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1); see also part 2 Turn Your Key, Sir! Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone Frank Pasquale, Do Corporations Enjoy a 2nd Amendment Right to Drones? Jathan Sadowski and Frank Pasquale, The Spectrum of Control: A Social Theory of the Smart City Jathan Sadowski and Frank Pasquale, Creditors Use New Devices to Put Squeeze on Debtors Dale Carrico, We Are the Killer Robots; see also Dale Carrico, Natality, Tech “Disruption,” and Killer Robots Mary Ellen O’Connell, 21st Century Arms Control Challenges: Drones, Cyber Weapons, Killer Robots, and WMDs Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, One Nation Under Guard; see also Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, Garrison America Frank Pasquale and Glyn Cashwell, Four Futures of Legal Automation Special Guest: Frank Pasquale.