Law and the Future of War
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The Geneva Conventions and the Third World - Srinivas Burra
20 May 2025
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Associate Professor Srinivas Burra about the Third World and the Geneva Conventions. They dis...
The Geneva Conventions at sea - André Smit (ICRC)
07 May 2025
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Send a textAs part of the 75th anniversary series on the Gevena Conventions, Lauren Sanders speaks to André Smit - the ICRC Regional Legal Adviser on...
The Geneva Conventions and Non-State Armed Groups - Katharine Fortin
15 Jan 2025
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Send a textIn this episode, Simon speaks with Dr Katharine Fortin about non-international armed conflicts, focussing on the intersections between IHL,...
The Geneva Conventions in History - Helen Kinsella and Giovanni Mantilla
01 Jan 2025
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Send a textIn this episode, Simon speaks to Professor Helen Kinsella and Associate Professor Giovanni Mantilla, two leading experts on the history and...
75 Years of the Geneva Conventions - Lauren Sanders and Simon McKenzie
18 Dec 2024
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Send a textIn this series introduction, Dr Lauren Sanders and Dr Simon McKenzie talk about the Geneva Conventions, and what is in store for the Law an...
A functional approach to the legal review of Autonomous Weapon Systems - webinar recording
06 Dec 2024
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Send a textThis episode is a recording of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Law and Security webinar hosted on 21 November 2024 on the functional app...
Regulation of novel technology: Trusted Autonomous Systems: Simon Ng and Clare East
20 Sep 2024
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Send a textIn this episode we continue our futures mini-series, and speak with Dr Simon Ng and Ms Clare East about the challenges of adopting novel te...
The Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Operations - Dale Stephens
05 Jun 2024
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Send a textIn this episode we hear from Professor Dale Stephens on the long-awaited release of The Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military...
Bounded Autonomy, Meaningful Human Control and Military AI - Jan Maarten Schraagen
08 May 2024
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Send a textIn this episode we dive into issues of human-machine teaming, with human factors engineer Jan Maarten Schraagen. Having edited the recently...
OpinioJuris Symposium on Military AI and the Law of Armed Conflict - Lena Trabucco
09 Apr 2024
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Send a textPart of the ongoing debate about the lawfulness of autonomy in military systems in the manner in which the technology integrates with and i...
Article 57, those who plan or decide on attacks and autonomous weapons - Renato Wolf
27 Mar 2024
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Send a textIn this episode, Lauren Sanders is speaking with fellow LFW researcher, Renato Wolf about the issue of determining where legal obligations ...
Future of War series: Stuart Casey-Maslen and Directed Energy Weapons
16 Jan 2024
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Professor Stuart Casey-Maslen about Directed Energy Weapons. They traverse the existing lega...
Future of War series: Algorithmic Futures with Zena Assaad and Elizabeth Williams
21 Dec 2023
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Send a textAs part of our ‘futures’ mini-series, in this episode we are looking specifically at Algorithmic Futures, with hosts of the podcast of ...
Future of war series: Biological warfare and transparency on the battlefield with Robert Lawless
21 Dec 2023
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Send a textContinuing our future of war series, this episode dives into the legal implications of increasing transparency of the battlespace as a resu...
Future of War: Artur Gruszczak - The Routledge Handbook on the Future of War
21 Dec 2023
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Send a textIn this third episode in our futures mini-series, we continue our scoping of the utility of seeking to predict the future of war; before de...
Future of War series: David Kilcullen and Ian Langford: the Future of Australia's Defence Strategy and the Indo-Pacific
29 Nov 2023
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Send a textRecorded in early September 2023, this episode continues our futures mini-series, where we speak with Dr Ian Langford and Professor David...
Contemporary International Criminal Law Issues - Guilty pleas and the ICC: Charles Adeogun-Phillips Part 2
18 Oct 2023
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Send a textIn this episode, we conclude our interview with Dr Charles Adeogun-Phillips, discussing guilty pleas and their development in international...
Contemporary International Criminal Law Issues - Guilty pleas and the ICC: Charles Adeogun-Phillips
04 Oct 2023
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Send a textIn this interview, we are speaking with Dr Charles Adeogun-Phillips about the history of guilty pleas in international criminal law, as an ...
Contemporary ICL Issues - Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: What Legacy for the New ICC Prosecutor? - Natacha Bracq
27 Sep 2023
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Send a textWe continue this international criminal law mini-series by speaking with Natacha Bracq, who wrote a chapter on gender and sexual-based viol...
Future of War series: Sir Lawrence Freedman - The History of the Future of War (Ukraine Update)
20 Sep 2023
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Send a textWe start our futures mini-series by speaking with an eminent military historian on the future of warfare. In this episode we are delighted ...
Contemporary International Criminal Law Issues - Contributions in Pursuit of Accountability for Africa and the World: Takeh Sendze
13 Sep 2023
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Send a textWe start this international criminal law mini-series by speaking with Mr Takeh Sendze, who is the editor of a recently published book, Cont...
BarbieHeimer Special Series - A Manhattan Historian's perspective on Oppenheimer: Chris Griffith (AtomicArchive)
21 Aug 2023
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Send a textIn this episode in the BarbieHeimer series, we focus on the history of the Manhattan Project and the accuracy of the Oppenheimer movie. We ...
BarbieHeimer - what the meme (and pop culture) teaches us about nuclear politics: Emily Faux
09 Aug 2023
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Send a text Today we continue our ‘BarbieHeimer’ (or Barbenheimer) series, and are talking today about the meme itself. Is it appropriate to ma...
BarbieHeimer Special Series - Barbie as a Souvenir of International Law: Emily Crawford and Jacqueline Mowbray
09 Aug 2023
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Send a textIn this 'BarbieHeimer' special episode, we return to the plastic doll, to talk about materialism, symbolism and the souvenirs in ...
BarbieHeimer Special Series - Barbie and The Nine Dash Line: Don Rothwell
09 Aug 2023
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Send a textIn this, the first of our Special Series on the BarbieHeimer phenomenon, we speak with international law of the sea expert, Professor Don R...
BarbieHeimer Special Series - Oppenheimer missed an opportunity: Gareth Evans
09 Aug 2023
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Send a textIn the second in our 'BarbieHeimer' series, we turn to the Oppenheimer movie and speak with world-renowned nuclear disarmament ad...
AWS, the Alignment problem and regulation - Brendan Walker-Munro and Sam Hartridge
01 Aug 2023
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Send a textIn this interview, we are continuing our series on legal review of AWS, and speaking with two of the Law and Future of war research team, a...
What does IHL Permit, Prohibit and Require? - Netta Goussac and Laura Bruun
20 Jun 2023
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Send a textIn this episode, as part of our series on AWS, legal review & IHL, we speak with Netta Goussac & Laura Bruun about their recently r...
Legal Review of AWS: Decision support systems and technical feasibility of review- Taylor Woodcock and Klaudia Klonowska
07 Jun 2023
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Send a textAs part of our new, limited series on the Legal Review of AWS, we speak with two researchers from the Asser Institute on what the legal rev...
AI Literacy for Defence Industry - Zygmunt Szpak
10 May 2023
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Send a textThe discussion about AI regulation and law has been hampered by a lack of understanding about what AI actually is and what it can do. To da...
Special episode: War crimes in Russia and Australia - the ICC arrest warrant against the Russian President and the AFP arrest of former ADF soldier - Rain Liivoja and Simon McKenzie
27 Mar 2023
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Send a textIn this special episode, members of the Law and Future of War research project discuss two significant events occurring in the week of 17...
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Paul Scharre
07 Mar 2023
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks to Dr Paul Scharre, Vice President and Director of Studies at CNAS (the Centre for a New American...
Eye in the Sky: Facts and Fiction in Military Decision-Making - Shiri Krebs
08 Feb 2023
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Send a textIn today’s episode we are continuing our holiday season special on entertainment and IHL. Dr Lauren Sanders is speaking again with Profes...
Dr Who and Genocide - Shannon Zimmerman
25 Jan 2023
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Send a textIn this episode of our IHL and entertainment series, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Dr Shannon Zimmerman about Dr Who and his crimes of ge...
Star Wars and war crimes - Dale Stephens
11 Jan 2023
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Send a textDr Lauren Sanders speaks to one of our regular contributors to the podcast, Professor Dale Stephens and combines two of his specialised are...
Entertainment and the laws of war - Eve Massingham
28 Dec 2022
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Send a textIn this episode of our special entertainment and the law series, Law and Future of War Senior Research Fellow, Dr Eve Massingham discusses ...
Theaters of War - Sebastian Kaempf
14 Dec 2022
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Send a textThis is the first episode in our special series on entertainment and the law of war.In this episode, Dr Sebastian Kaempf, a Senior Lecturer...
Universal Jurisdiction and Ukraine - Danielle Ireland-Piper and Melinda Rankin
03 Dec 2022
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Send a textIn this final episode of our series on accountability in Ukraine, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Associate Professor Danielle Ireland-Piper ...
The Strategic Effect of OSINT - Tom Bullock
16 Nov 2022
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Send a textThis is the fifth episode in our series on accountability in Ukraine. Following on from our initial exploration into the Open Source Intell...
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Ukraine - Benjamin Strick
02 Nov 2022
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Send a textThis is the fourth episode in our series about accountability in Ukraine. This episode focuses on the collection and collation of informati...
Ukraine, The Crime of Aggression and the Need for a Special Tribunal - Carrie McDougall
19 Oct 2022
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Send a textThis episode is the third in a series of podcasts analysing accountability in the current Ukrainian conflict. In this third episode, we are...
The UNGA and Accountability in Ukraine - Rebecca Barber
05 Oct 2022
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Send a textThis episode is the second instalment in a series of podcasts analysing accountability in the current Ukrainian conflict. In this episode w...
Cultural Heritage and Accountability in Ukraine - Ana Vrodljak and Mayee Warren
25 Sep 2022
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Send a textThis episode starts a series of podcasts analysing accountability in the current Ukrainian conflict. In this first episode, we are joined ...
US DoD Civilian Harm and Mitigation Response Plan – what is it, and what does it propose to do? - Marc Garlasco
07 Sep 2022
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Send a textOn 25 Aug 2022, the US Department of Defense released its Civilian Harm and Mitigation Response Plan, which has been created, in part as a ...
Counting civilian casualties - the impact of perspectives on accountability: Christiane Wilke
24 Aug 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Professor Christiane Wilke about the problem with accountability following civilian casualty...
Drone visual, labels and cognitive bias in targeting operations and military fact finding - Shiri Krebs
10 Aug 2022
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Send a textIn this episode Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Associate Professor Shiri Krebs about cognitive biases inherent in targeting operations and w...
International Criminal Law and Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: autonomy and accountability - Marta Bo
27 Jul 2022
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Send a textIn this episode Dr Lauren Sanders will be speaking with Dr Marta Bo about her work analysing how individuals can be held to account for the...
Businesses and IHL - Fauve Kurnadi and Jonathan Kolieb
13 Jul 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Eve Massingham talks to Fauve Kurnadi of the Australian Red Cross and Dr Jonathon Kolieb of RMIT about how businesses a...
Regulating AI and the limits of war - Simon Chesterman
29 Jun 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Damian Copeland interviews Professor Simon Chestermann about his new book, We the Robots: Regulating Artificial Intelligen...
War Algorithms - Dustin Lewis
15 Jun 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Dustin Lewis, of Harvard Law School's Project on International Law and Armed Conflict a...
What is quantum technology and why will it change the future? - Warwick Bowen
01 Jun 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Professor Warwick Bowen explains to us what quantum technology is, and why it will be such a significant step change in th...
AI and its role in facilitating targeting operations - Hitoshi Nasu
18 May 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks to Professor Hitoshi Nasu, from the Lieber Institute at West Point about artificial intelligence ...
War Lawyers - Craig Jones
04 May 2022
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Send a textDr Craig Jones speaks to Dr Lauren Sanders about his book: War Lawyers, to discuss how some militaries provide legal advice during targetin...
Keeping the Peace in Cyberspace - Samuel White
20 Apr 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Samuel White about how cyber operations and information warfare are changing national securit...
War gaming with new technologies - Scott Roach
06 Apr 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Eve Massingham talks with Major Scott Roach of the Canadian Armed Forces about wargaming. They discuss the concept of w...
Educating the military through wargaming and computer games - Jo Brick
23 Mar 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Group Captain Jo Brick about the role of wargaming and technology in professional military e...
Special Episode: UQ POLSIS Panel Flashpoint: War in Ukraine - Seb Kaempf, Sarah Teitt, Andrew Phillips, Christian Reus-Smit and Lauren Sanders
22 Mar 2022
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Send a textThis panel, hosted by the UQ School of Political Science and International Studies addresses critical legal, political and international ...
Special episode: Macquarie CEL Webinar - Protection of the natural environment in times of armed conflict: Ukraine - Eve Massingham
19 Mar 2022
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Send a textIn this special reproduction of a Macquarie University Centre for Environmental Law (CEL) webinar, Dr Eve Massingham discusses the protecti...
Drones and the fourth wave: how drones have impacted the global order - Paul Lushenko
09 Mar 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks to Paul Lushenko, to discuss the broader implications of drone strikes in terms of politics and s...
Facial recognition technology and the law in Australia - Professor Ed Santow
23 Feb 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Professor Ed Santow, speaks to Dr Lauren Sanders about the regulation of facial recognition technology in Australian and...
What will 2022 bring? Drones, geopolitics and the year ahead - John Blaxland
09 Feb 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders interviews Professor John Blaxland – one of Australia’s most renowned military strategy writers and ...
Legal review of autonomous weapons - Damian Copeland
26 Jan 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders talks with Damian Copeland about one of the most important legal issues raised by autonomous weapons: ho...
Facial recognition and occupation law - Rohan Talbot
12 Jan 2022
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie speaks with Rohan Talbot about the legal regulation of facial recognition technology during occupations....
Australia in space - Tristan Moss
22 Dec 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Dr Tristan Moss about history of Australia in Space. They discuss the history of Australia in...
Mitigating harm to civilian populations and critical infrastructure in urban warfare - Abby Zeith and Michael Talhami
09 Dec 2021
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Send a textIn today’s episode, Dr Lauren Sanders talks with Abby Zeith and Michael Talhami of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ab...
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War - Samuel Moyn
24 Nov 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Professor Samuel Moyn about his new book, Humane, which considers some of the consequences of...
What art can tell us about new digital technologies - Anna Briers
10 Nov 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Anna Briers about what visual art can tell us about new digital technologies. The current sho...
What space law can tell us about international law - Cris van Eijk
27 Oct 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie chats with Cris van Eijk about space law – including some of its fundamental documents and places of p...
Operational, Political and Legal Implications of AUKUS - David Nicholls, Matt McDonald and Monique Cormier
13 Oct 2021
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Send a textIn this live recording of an event, Rain Liivoja talks with David Nicholls, Matt McDonald and Monique Cormier about the new AUKUS arrange...
Precautions in defending digital infrastructure - Eve Massingham
29 Sep 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Dr Eve Massingham about the equirement to take precautions against the effects of attack. Thi...
Precautions in attack and coalition operations in Mosul - Lauren Sanders
15 Sep 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Dr Lauren Sanders about the practical application of one of the most interesting legal obliga...
Drone strikes and the safety of civilians - Joshua Andresen
01 Sep 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders talks with Dr Joshua Andresen about drones and aerial strikes, exploring whether they make armed conflic...
Legal standards for AI: law and the reasonable robot - Ryan Abbott
16 Aug 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders talks with Professor Ryan Abbott about the legal standards and challenges of integrating artificial inte...
Space force - Jessie Dumont
04 Aug 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Eve Massingham talks with Captain Jessie Dumont about the role of automation in space operations and the prospects of a...
Experimenting on humans and international law - Thibault Moulin
21 Jul 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Dr Thibault Moulin about the international legal regulation of experiments on humans. These e...
The new and old of emerging military technology - Maaike Verbruggen
07 Jul 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Maaike Verbruggen about how history can help us grapple with new military technologies. They ...
Legal regulation of military activities in space - Dale Stephens
23 Jun 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Eve Massingham talks with Professor Dale Stephens CSM about law and war in outer space. They discuss the legal regime f...
Forecasting military technology and strategic challenges - Michael O'Hanlon
09 Jun 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Michael O'Hanlon about forecasting what the future of military technology holds, and the...
Submarine cables and the law of armed conflict - Rob McLaughlin, Tamsin Paige and Douglas Guilfoyle
26 May 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie is joined by Professor Rob McLaughlin, Dr Tamsin Paige and Associate Professor Douglas Guilfoyle to talk...
Cyber autonomy - Ryan Ko
12 May 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Professor Ryan Ko about the prospects and risks of cyber autonomy. Programs and systems are b...
The infrastructure of the internet - Scott Wilkie
28 Apr 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Scott Wilkie about the infrastructure of the internet. They discuss how we should think about...
Data as an object in IHL - Simon McKenzie
15 Apr 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Eve Massingham talks with Dr Simon McKenzie to talk about how some of the fundamental categories of IHL are challenged ...
The Banning of Hostile Environmental Modification in the ENMOD Convention - Emily Crawford
31 Mar 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Associate Professor Emily Crawford about the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any...
Metaphors and cyberspace - Julia Slupska
17 Mar 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Julia Sluspka about how the metaphors we use to understand cyberspace impact on how we imagin...
The ICRC's perspective on new technology and international humanitarian law - Cordula Droege
03 Mar 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Eve Massingham talks with Dr Cordula Droege about some of the challenges new technologies pose to international humanit...
Countermeasures in cyberspace - Samuli Haataja
17 Feb 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Dr Samuli Haataja about countermeasures in cyberspace. The right to countermeasures is a mech...
The role of the military defending cyber operations against critical infrastructure - Rhiannon Neilsen and Karine Pontbriand
03 Feb 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Rhiannon Neilsen and Karine Pontbriand on the role of militaries in defending against cyber o...
International Law in Cyber Space and the Tallinn Manuals - Michael Schmitt
20 Jan 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Rain Liivoja talks to Professor Michael Schmitt about the Tallinn Manuals on the law applicable to cyber operations. Th...
The Obligation to Review New Weapons - Natalia Jevglevskaja
06 Jan 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Dr Natalia Jevglevskaja about the obligation to review new weapons found in Article 36 of Add...
The Future of Military Technology - Jason Scholz and Simon Ng
16 Dec 2020
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Eve Massingham talks to Professor Jason Scholz and Associate Professor Simon Ng about the development of new military t...
Autonomy in Weapons and the Law - Tim McFarland
02 Dec 2020
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Dr Tim McFarland about autonomy in weapons systems: what it is, why it is important, and how ...
LFW Explainer: Brereton Report into alleged Australian war crimes with Eve Massingham and Rain Liivoja
24 Nov 2020
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie is joined by Dr Eve Massingham and Associate Professor Rain Liivoja to grapple with the findings of the ...
Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty and Australia - Anna Hood and Monique Cormier
18 Nov 2020
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Send a textIn this episode Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Dr Anna Hood and Dr Monique Cormier to discuss the attempt to ban the most destructive weapons...
The Basics of the Weapons Law in Armed Conflict - Eve Massingham
05 Nov 2020
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Send a textIn this episode, Isabelle Peart talks with Dr Eve Massingham about the operation of weapons law in armed conflict. They talk about the defi...
The Law of Armed Conflict and New Technology - Rain Liivoja
23 Oct 2020
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Send a textIn this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Associate Professor Rain Liivoja on how the law of armed conflict deals with new technology. ...