Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the future law of armed conflict / Matthew C. Waxman -- Future war, future law : a historical approach / Sir Adam Roberts -- The jus ad bellum anno 2040 : an essay on possible trends and challenges / Terry D. Gill -- Coding the law of armed conflict : first steps Ashley Deeks -- Big data and the future law of armed conflict in cyberspace / Paul B. Stephan -- Being more than you can be : enhancement of warfighters and the law of armed conflict / Rain Liivoja -- The law of cyber conflict : quo vadis 2.0? / Michael N. Schmitt -- The laws of neutrality in the interconnected world : mapping the future scenarios / Hitoshi Nasu -- The future law of naval warfare : some vessel status issues / Rob McLaughlin -- The second space age : the regulation of military space operations and the role of private actors / Christopher J. Borgen -- Coalition warfare and the future of the law of armed conflict / Blaise Cathcart, QC -- Transatlantic legal cooperation and the future law of armed conflict / Steven Hill -- Who gets to make international humanitarian law in the future : a pluralist vision / Alex Moorehead -- The future of military and security privatization : protecting the values underlying the law of armed conflict / Laura A. Dickinson -- A discursive analysis of the Chinese party-state's potential impact on the law of armed conflict / E. John Gregory.

"Warfare is changing-and rapidly. New technologies, new geopolitical alignments, new interests and vulnerabilities, and other developments are changing how, why, and by whom conflict will be waged. Just as militaries must plan ahead for an environment in which threats, alliances, capabilities, and even the domains in which they fight will differ from today, they must plan for international legal constraints that may differ, too. As states, including the United States, plan for how they will conduct warfare in the future, West Point's Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare, in collaboration with Columbia Law School's National Security Law Program, convened an expert workshop to consider the future legal context in which conflict will be waged. Titled "Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) 2040," we assembled leading academics and practitioners from around the world to consider how that body of law and institutions for creating, interpreting, and enforcing it might look two decades ahead-as well as what opportunities may exist to influence it in that time"-- Provided by publisher.

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