States and some organisations have expressed their views about the utility, purpose, scope and process of the legal review of weapons in various different contexts. Some of these views have been recorded domestic documents, such as military manuals on the law of armed conflict. Increasingly, however, States and organisations have articulated their positions in a range of international fora, either through written submissions or oral interventions.
This database compiles and organises publicly expressed views in relation to legal reviews, without prejudice to their relative significance or effect (for example, in terms of the development of customary international law). The database aims to comprehensively reflect the views of states but only covers the positions of a small number of selected organisations.
This database currently contains 379 positions and is continuously updated. Any corrections, or suggestions to add material, are welcome.
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2025 Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
2025
Statement by Israel
There is a reason why definitions of weapons are based on design in particular since they delineate more clearly the types of weapons under consideration and since they better reflect the element of intended circumstances of use which is a crucial element in defining and …
Statement by Israel
Article 36 itself states that, in the development of a new weapon, a High Contracting Party is under the obligation to determine whether its employment will be prohibited by [Additional] Protocol [I] or by any other applicable rule of international law, meaning the Article does …