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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2026 Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
2026
Statement by Switzerland
With your indulgence, I will also come back to the paragraph on legal reviews. In that regard, we also recall the adoption of guiding principle (e) in 2019 and the language contained in there, and we are open to study the proposal of the US …
Statement by Switzerland
On paragraph 39, We support the proposed amendments and the alignment with the text of Article 36 of Additional Protocol I. Together with the chapeau, we are very close to Guiding Principle (e), which is now adapted to specifically address LAWS. Switzerland cannot support proposals …