Modern Warfare (Pens茅e d'avance | Think Ahead series)
Join us for the fifth and final talk of Faculty of Law's popular continuing legal education series for the year.
New technologies, including drones, automated weapon systems and cyberwarfare, have revolutionized military capabilities on the battlefield. How does the international law of armed conflicts respond to the legal and ethical challenges posed by such technologies?
鈥� Professor Fr茅d茅ric M茅gret (McGill Faculty of Law)
鈥� Dr. Tetyana Krupiy (SSHRC postdoctoral Fellow, McGill Faculty of Law) - "Holding accountable programmers and corporate managers: the paradoxes presented by lethal autonomous robots for international law"
鈥� Dr. Cassandra Steer (Erin J.C. Arsenault Fellow, McGill Faculty of Law) - 鈥淪tar Laws: Why the law of armed conflict matters in outer space鈥�
鈥� Mr Eric Ward (Senior Counsel, Justice Canada) - "Killer Robots and Other Targets of the Legal Imagination"
About the series
Une pens茅e d鈥檃vance | Think Ahead, McGill Law鈥檚 continuing legal education conference series, is returning for a seventh year with the theme of Surviving Technology. See the complete series on the calendar. Registration is done via the McGill Bookstore's transactional site.
Come broaden your legal knowledge, network with colleagues and meet your continuing legal education obligations by registering for one or several of the lectures in this year's series.