BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251012T023707EDT-8398hCLAVh@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251012T063707Z DESCRIPTION:(En anglais seulement) The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pl uralism at 9IÖĆ×÷ł§Ăâ·Ń presents: The RenĂ© Cassin lectureship in Huma n Rights 2022 \n\nWith Kevin Jon Heller\, moderated by FrĂ©dĂ©ric MĂ©gret\n\n In-person\; the event will also be livecast find link here - Masks not req uired\; respect for others’ safety requested \n\nAbout the talk \n\nThe Co ncept of “the Human” in the Critique of Autonomous Weapons \n\nAutonomous weapons systems (AWS) – so-called “killer robots” – are no longer the stuf f of science fiction. In Libya\, Syria\, Nagorno-Karabakh\, and most recen tly Ukraine\, states have used weapons in combat that have an autonomous m ode. And it is only a matter of time before AWS become ubiquitous on the b attlefield\, because the world’s most powerful states currently devote ten s of billions of dollars to developing\, manufacturing\, and even exportin g increasingly sophisticated versions of them. \n\nAs AWS have proliferate d\, so have calls to prohibit their use. Some objections to AWS are legal\ , such as the idea that international humanitarian law (IHL) permits only humans to use lethal force. Others are deontological\, such as the content ion that allowing machines to kill is inconsistent with human dignity. And still others are consequentialist\, such as the claim that using AWS will lead to unnecessary civilian casualties because only human soldiers are c apable of complying with IHL. \n\nDespite their differences\, all of these critiques emphasise the need for war to remain an exclusively human endea vour. The “human” they imagine\, however\, is an idealized one: the tradit ional Enlightenment subject who is rational\, self-determining\, and capab le of self-control. That conception of human subjectivity is contradicted by decades of research into how humans actually make decisions\, particula rly in dangerous and stressful situations such as armed conflict. As this lecture will show\, once we accept humans as they are\, not how critics im agine them to be\, the case against AWS collapses: war fought with killer robots is likely to be far more “humane” than war fought solely by human s oldiers. \n\nAbout the speaker \n\nKevin Jon Heller is currently Professor of International Law and Security at the University of Copenhagen’s Centr e for Military Studies and Professor of Law at the Australian National Uni versity. His books include The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origin s of International Criminal Law (OUP\, 2011) and four co-edited volumes: T he Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (Stanford University Press\, 2010) \, The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials (OUP\, 2013)\, The Oxford Han dbook of International Criminal Law (OUP\, 2018)\, and Contingency in Inte rnational Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (OUP\, 2021 ). He currently serves as Special Advisor to the ICC Prosecutor on Interna tional Criminal Law Discourse\, is a member of the Advisory Board of the B ar Human Rights Association of England and Wales\, and has been a member o f Opinio Juris\, the world’s oldest international-law blog\, for more than 15 years.  \n\nAbout the RenĂ© Cassin lectureship \n\nThe RenĂ© Cassin Lect ureship is organized by the 9IÖĆ×÷ł§Ăâ·Ń Faculty of Law. In 1988\, the Alliance IsrĂ©alite Universelle established this Lectureship to mark the centenary o f the birth of RenĂ© Cassin\, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. T he Alliance IsrĂ©alite Universelle is one of the oldest and most distinguis hed human rights organizations\, having been founded in Paris in 1860. Ren Ă© Cassin was its president from 1943 to 1969. \n\nThe inaugural lecture wa s delivered by the Hon. Claire l’Heureux-DubĂ©. Other speakers have include d the Hon. Walter Tarnopolsky\; Ambassador Yves Fortier\; Minister Barbara McDougall (1992)\; the Hon. Jules DeschĂŞnes\; Dr. Bernard Kouchner\; the Hon. Louise Arbour\; the Right Hon. Beverley McLachlin\; Prof. Michael Bot he\; Prof. Mireille Delmas-Marty (2006)\; Prof. Jacques Semelin (2009)\; P rof. Jon Elster (2011)\; the Hon. Irwin Cotler (2013)\; former president o f the Quebec Human Rights Commission Jacques FrĂ©mont (2015)\; Prof. Philip pe Sands (2018). \n\nAll\, welcome. Please join us\, and please share the announcement widely.\n\nFor more information human.rights [at] mcgill.ca  \n DTSTART:20220929T210000Z DTEND:20220929T223000Z LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court\, Room 100 SUMMARY:The Concept of “the Human” in the Critique of Autonomous Weapons URL:/law/fr/channels/event/concept-human-critique-auto nomous-weapons-341107 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR