Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Newton, Michael A."

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    • Back to the Future 
      Newton, Michael A. (Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2015)
      This essay refocuses the debate over autonomous weapons systems to consider the potentially salutary effects of the evolving technology. Law does not exist in a vacuum and cannot evolve in the abstract. Jus in bello norms ...
    • Back to the Future: Reflections on the Advent of Autonomous Weapons Systems 
      Newton, Michael A. (Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2015)
      This essay refocuses the debate over autonomous weapons systems to consider the potentially salutary effects of the evolving technology. Law does not exist in a vacuum and cannot evolve in the abstract. Jus in bello norms ...
    • Contorting Common Article 3 
      Newton, Michael A. (Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law, 2017)
      This short Essay describes the circularity of support between the ICRC and the Pre-Trial Chambers of the ICC. Its successive sections describe the problematic potential of extending the substantive coverage of Common Article ...
    • Evolving Equality: The Development of the International Defense Bar 
      Newton, Michael A. (Stanford Journal of International Law, 2011)
      Defense counsel in international criminal proceedings face difficult challenges that are intrinsic to the modern system of internationalized accountability; yet their professionalism and performance represent perhaps the ...
    • The Iraqi Special Tribunal: A Human Rights Perspective 
      Newton, Michael A. (Cornell International Law Journal, 2005)
      The creation of the Iraqi Special Tribunal in December 2003 by Iraqi authorities who were at the time under the legal occupation of the Coalition Provisional Authority marked the emergence of a new form of internationalized ...
    • A Near Term Retrospective on the Al-Dujail Trial & the Death of Saddam Hussein 
      Newton, Michael A. (Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, 2008)
      Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti died at the hands of Iraqi officials at dawn on December 30, 2006, following a tumultuous fourteen month trial3 for crimes committed against the citizens of a relatively obscure Iraqi village known ...
    • Reframing the Proportionality Principle 
      Newton, Michael A. (Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2018)
      Proportionality functions as one of the most important legal constraints applicable to the conduct of hostilities. In that context, this short essay discusses the commonly encountered misapplications of Cicero's classic ...
    • Talking Foreign Policy: A Discussion on Cyber Warfare 
      Newton, Michael A.; Singer, Peter; Sterio, Milena; French, Shannon (Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2015)
      A panel discussion on the topic of cyberwar. Broadcast on January 30, 2014. Speakers include: Peter Singer (Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Brookings Institution); Michael Newton (Professor ...
    • A View from the Trenches 
      Newton, Michael A. (Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2003)
      As a former armor officer, my roots are literally in the trenches. In sharing my figurative view from the trenches regarding the pursuit of justice, you should know that the pursuit of justice is the very core of our ...