Recent Articles
MAR 23, 2015 • Journal Online Exclusive
Terminator Ethics: Should We Ban “Killer Robots”?
JEAN-BAPTISTE JEANGÈNE VILMER Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems are the subject of significant debate, and certain NGOs are demanding their preventive prohibition. But these systems ...
MAR 16, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Shakespeare on the Shop Floor
A pioneering organization is using literature to enable other sorts of conversations at the workplace—the types of conversations that successful companies need to have.
MAR 11, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Bye, Doctor, Hi, "Cloud"
A team of entrepreneurs based in San Francisco is turning the out-of-date diagnostic industry upside down.
MAR 11, 2015 • Journal Online Exclusive
The Ethics of the Senate Letter and Iran Talks
In the United States, executive agreements—that is, arrangements made with other states that are not treaties subject to Senate ratification—exist in a gray ...
MAR 9, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Good Environmental Policies Equal More Just Societies
Conserving natural resources and the environment is an integral part of a socially just society. The big challenge is to make sure that decision-makers recognize ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
Toward a Drone Accountability Regime
The key principle of a Drone Accountability Regime should be transparency, and its central agent should be an Ombudsperson with broad authority to investigate situations ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post-9/11 Wars by Neta C. Crawford
For Crawford, we ought not to regard instances in which civilians are mistakenly targeted or instances in which more civilians are killed collaterally than had ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
The Informal Regulation of Drones and the Formal Legal Regulation of War
How does the proposed drone accountability regime relate to existing international treaty and customary law governing the use of force, including the use of lethal ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
Targeted Killing: Accountability and Oversight via a Drone Accountability Regime
Using a drone as a component of a military operation does not automatically make that action a “targeted killing.” Much of the public concern about ...
MAR 6, 2015 • Journal
Toward a Drone Accountability Regime: A Rejoinder
We appreciate the fact that our proposal initiated a lively discussion of the characteristics of a Drone Accountability Regime, and of the international political and ...