@HLSPILAC is accepting applications from current @Harvard_Law upper-level students to become research assistants for the fall semester. Due date: Sept. 5th at 5 pm, with applications reviewed on a rolling basis. Link to apply:

New @HLSPILAC paper — “The International Law of Armed Conflict and the Natural Environment: An Analytical Resource for States” — by Program Fellow Taha Wiheba. Link:

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📘 New @HLSPILAC legal concept paper analyzes hundreds of U.N. General Assembly statements alleging double standards (2000–late 2024) and explores their legal and institutional implications as forms of potential normative contestation. 🔗

On April 1–2, 2025, @HLSPILAC, @ICRC_dc, and @Lieber_Inst co-convened a workshop at @Harvard_Law titled “Respecting International Law in Armed Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities Concerning Contemporary Approaches and Future Directions”:

RT @Harvard_Law: This February, @HLSPILAC collaborated on a landmark artificial intelligence and international humanitarian law workshop. h….

“Diplomacy, artificial intelligence, and war” — a profile of @HLSPILAC’s recent workshop for 90+ diplomats on AI and IHL

RT @HLSPILAC: We are pleased to share the latest paper from @HLSPILAC, ���Exercising Cognitive Agency: A Legal Framework Concerning Natural a….

. the authors aim to help uncover part of what the current legal framework expects, assumes, and requires of humans.

By drawing distinctions and similarities between exercises of natural intelligence by humans, on the one hand, and reliance on AI by humans (and the States they serve), on the other hand, . .

The authors widen the lens beyond isolated uses of AI to focus on intelligence and cognitive tasks more broadly.

Rather than proposing new policy approaches, the authors seek to clarify how existing conditions of legality structure decision-making and accountability.

As States and other actors explore the use of artificial intelligence in war, this paper offers a conceptual vocabulary for understanding the roles and responsibilities of humans in respecting international humanitarian law and executing the cognitive tasks embedded in IHL.

We are pleased to share the latest paper from @HLSPILAC, “Exercising Cognitive Agency: A Legal Framework Concerning Natural and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict” by @Dustin_A_Lewis and Hannah Sweeney:

RT @HLSPILAC: @HLSPILAC has launched a series of primers on international law and the UN Security Council, covering subsidiary bodies of sa….

@HLSPILAC has launched a series of primers on international law and the UN Security Council, covering subsidiary bodies of sanctions committees, contribution of forces for collective security, and the relationship between the UNSC and the ICJ:

Join us tonight at 7:30 pm for a presentation by Prof. @IngvildBode & Dr. @AnnaRNad on “Governance of AI in the Military Domain: How Global Practices Shape Norms”.

RT @HLSPILAC: Join @HLSPILAC on Oct. 24 at 7:30 pm for a presentation by Prof. @IngvildBode & Dr. @AnnaRNad (@CWSWarStudies) titled “Govern….

RT @IngvildBode: I am looking forward to present @autonorms research on #governance #norms and AI in the military domain together with @Ann….

Join @HLSPILAC on Oct. 24 at 7:30 pm for a presentation by Prof. @IngvildBode & Dr. @AnnaRNad (@CWSWarStudies) titled “Governance of AI in the Military Domain: How Global Practices Shape Norms”

RT @autonorms: 📌24 October: "Governance of AI in the Military Domain: How Global Practices Shape Norms" at Harvard Law School @HLSPILAC htt….