Drone Strikes: Legal but Lethal?

November 13, 2013 6:30 p.m.

Ernst and Young
5 Times Square

Host:  Michael Solender
Co-Chairs: Roz Fink, Michael Solender, Peter Zimroth, Steve Ehrenberg
 

Drones:  Lethal but Legal?  You are the President of the United
States in the situation room with your advisors. You have the facts.  You
know the law.  Do you authorize the strike?  We will share with you
the facts about drones, including the biggest mis-impressions.  We'll tell
 you about the applicable law -- the key factors that go into the
dtermination fo whether a lethal strike is legal.  Then it is your turn.
 We will present a half dozen scenarios, ripped from the headlines, of
potential drones strikes.  Would they be legal?  Would they be moral?
Would they be wise policy?  You will hear our analysis.  Then you
decide.

CLE Materials: Drone Strikes

http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/10/interim-report-by-un-special-rapporteur-ben-emmerson-on-drones-in-counterterrorism-operations/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/opinion/10sun1.html

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/10_things_you_didnt_know_about_drones?page=0,0

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/world/white-house-presses-for-drone-rule-book.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.livingunderdrones.org/report/

"Will I Be Next?", US Drones in Pakistan, Amnesty International (2013)

UNMANNED COMBAT AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW: SIMPLIFYING THE OFT BENIGHTED DEBATE, Michael N. Schmitt, Boston University International Law Journal, 30 B.U. Int'l L.J. 595 (Summer 2012)

Why Drones Work?, Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs (July/August 2013)

Why Drones Fail?, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs (July/August 2013)