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New Technologies in International (and European) Law—Contemporary Challenges and Returning Issues

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The article argues that the contributions gathered in the book help to dispel the “fog of technologies”, i.e., the uncertainty lawyers face when confronting the challenges posed by new technologies. Overall, the chapters are effective in dealing with the challenges that new technologies pose for International and European law at the three different levels of spaces, actors and governance and they eventually contribute to provide an updated and complete overview of this complex issues.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See E. Carpanelli, N. Lazzerini, Coming Soon…? A Reappraisal of the Legal and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) ahead of the First Meeting of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal AWS. (2017). 43 QIL-Questions of International Law, with contributions from D. Amoroso, A. Spagnolo and O. Ulgen; and E. Carpanelli, New Developments and Open Issues Concerning Off-Earth Mining: Interpretative and Law-making Challenges in Light of the Current Legal Regime. (2017). 35 QIL-Questions of International Law, with contributions from T. Masson-Zwaan and N. Palkovitz and S. Freeland, all available at www.qil-qdi.org.

  2. 2.

    See “Harnessing new technologies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals” (2018) UN Doc. E/2018/66, pp. 3–4, paras. 6–14.

  3. 3.

    Ibid., p. 3, para. 2.

  4. 4.

    See Hollis (2015), p. 489.

  5. 5.

    See the chapter by F. De Vanna.

  6. 6.

    See the chapters by P. Hanke and D. Vitiello and by S. Montaldo.

  7. 7.

    See the chapters by C. Candelmo and by L. Gervasoni.

  8. 8.

    See the chapters by K. Podstawa and by O. Feraci.

  9. 9.

    The topic has been developed primarily by Brölmann (2007), pp. 84–109. See also Milano (2015), pp. 53–69.

  10. 10.

    For a more general assessment of the phenomenon and its implications see Ruiz-Fabri (1999), pp. 187–212.

  11. 11.

    Benvenisti (2018), p. 55.

  12. 12.

    See the conclusive section of the chapter by K. Podstawa.

  13. 13.

    See generally on this question d’Aspremont (2011), pp. 1–20.

  14. 14.

    UN Doc. E/2018/66 (2018), at 6, para. 28.

  15. 15.

    Finnemore and Hollis (2016), pp. 427–429.

  16. 16.

    See in particular the basic tenets of the New Haven school of International Law, aptly summarized by Reisman (1992), pp. 118–125. See also, on the European side, Higgins (1994), pp. 38–55.

  17. 17.

    See the chapters by S. Saluzzo and by V. Nardone.

  18. 18.

    See the chapters by A. Miglio and M. Gervasi.

  19. 19.

    See respectively the chapters by A. Spagnolo and by M. Longobardo.

  20. 20.

    See the chapters by F. Delarue and by M. Buscemi.

  21. 21.

    See the chapter by D. Amoroso and B. Giordano.

  22. 22.

    See “Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security” (2015) UN Doc. A/70/174, pp. 7–8, para. 13.

  23. 23.

    See ibid., letters (a) and (c).

  24. 24.

    See ibid., the whole section IV of the report, entitled “How international law applies to the use of ICTs” at 12–13, paras. 24–29 and in particular para. 28(b).

  25. 25.

    See the Annex to the letter dated 9 January 2015 from the Permanent Representatives of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, proposing an “International code of conduct for information security” (2015) UN Doc. A/69/723, pp. 3–6.

  26. 26.

    See “Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security” (2017) UN Doc. A/72/327, p. 2, para. 5.

  27. 27.

    See Benvenisti (2018), pp. 76–77.

  28. 28.

    See Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Burundi, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe: revised draft resolution, UN Doc. A/C.1/73/L.27/Rev. 1 (29 October 2018).

  29. 29.

    Ibid., 4th paragraph of the preamble.

  30. 30.

    Ibid., 17th paragraph of the preamble.

  31. 31.

    Ibid., 21st paragraph of the preamble.

  32. 32.

    Ibid., 17th paragraph of the preamble.

  33. 33.

    See the general presentation of the debate by Seneker (1967), pp. 419–422.

  34. 34.

    See Schachter (1967), pp. 423–430.

  35. 35.

    Ibid., pp. 426–427.

  36. 36.

    See Finnemore and Hollis (2016), pp. 427–428.

  37. 37.

    Schachter (1967), p. 428.

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Arcari, M. (2019). New Technologies in International (and European) Law—Contemporary Challenges and Returning Issues. In: Carpanelli, E., Lazzerini, N. (eds) Use and Misuse of New Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05648-3_17

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