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Rain Liivoja

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Law
 
Primary Interest
Military Ethics
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Projects

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Emerging Technologies of Warfare as a Challenge to the Law of Armed Conflict: Cyber-Attacks, Robotics and Nanotechnology

In order to reduce suffering in war, international law places limits on the ways in which the adversary can be harmed. This project will ass..

2013 - 2018
Completed
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Governing Resource Conflict in Bougainville - accountability for past and the future

2014 - 2015
Completed
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Combatant's Privilege in Criminal Law

2013 - 2014
Completed
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REGULATION OF PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY CONTRACTORS IN AUSTRALIA

2012 - 2013
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

2

Internal Research Grant

1

Research Contracts

1

Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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The Utility of Weapons Reviews in Addressing Concerns Raised by Autonomous Weapon Systems

Damian Copeland, Rain Liivoja, Lauren Sanders

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Conflict and Security Law

Abstract The obligation to legally review weapons, means and methods of warfare has been identified by the Group of..

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A method for ethical AI in defence: A case study on developing trustworthy autonomous systems

Tara Roberson, Stephen Bornstein, Rain Liivoja, Simon Ng, Jason Scholz, Kate Devitt

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Responsible Technology

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Being More than You Can Be

Rain Liivoja

Book Chapter  |  2022

Abstract Warfighters are both the strongest and the weakest link of an armed force. The parallel processing capabil..

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Rules-Based International Disorder

R Buchan, E Crawford, R Liivoja

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

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Editorial

R Buchan, E Crawford, R Liivoja

Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

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Editorial

Russell Buchan, Emily Crawford, Rain Liivoja

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LEGAL STUDIES

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Editorial

Russell Buchan, Emily Crawford, Rain Liivoja

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LEGAL STUDIES

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The better instincts of humanity: Humanitarian arguments in defense of international arms control

Natalia Jevglevskaja, Rain Liivoja

Book Chapter  |  2021

Disagreements about the humanitarian risk-benefit balance of weapons technology are not new. The history of arms control negotiati..

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International Law in a Time of Pandemic

Russell Buchan, Emily Crawford, Rain Liivoja

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LEGAL STUDIES

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Protecting Warfighters from Superfluous Injury and Unnecessary Suffering

Rain Liivoja

Journal article  |  2020

[Law and the Future of War Research Paper No 4] This paper considers one of most fundamental of rules of the law of armed conflict..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Justice and the Law
International and Comparative Law
Law in Context
Other Law and Legal Studies
Public Law
Legal Systems
Defence
Applied Ethics
Commercial Law
International Relations

News

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Pope Benedict could face court over sex crimes in the church

Anna Hood, Monique Cormier, Rain Liivoja

Not a day goes by without further allegations of rape and sexual abuse being made against the Catholic Church. The vast majority of accusat..

February 28, 2013
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

SMIEEE - Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

2013

FRSA - Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts

2

Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Law

Editorial Advisory Board

Estonian Journal of Military Studies

Council

Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law

Board Of Directors

International Society for Military Law and the Law of War

Education

Graduate Certificate in University Teaching

University of Melbourne

Doctor of Laws

University of Helsinki

Licentiate of Laws

University of Helsinki

Master of Laws

University of Helsinki

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Languages

English
Estonian

International Linkages

Riga Graduate School of Law

Latvia

University of Helsinki

Finland

Estonian National Defence College

Estonia

Georgetown University

United States of America