By Catherine Thornton and Kirsty McRuvie (Kevin Hu, Unsplash) The workshop ‘New Technologies in the Global Battlespace’ was held by the International Peace and Security Interest Group (ISPIG) of ANZSIL and the University of Queensland’s Law and Future of War Research Group on the 13th of May 2022. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss academic papers and practical implications concerning the impact of new technologies on compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL) and public international law more broadly. Through presentations and Q&A dialogues, the workshop discussed current challenges within IHL concerning, inter alia, autonomy in weapons systems and data...
