Heather Harrison Dinniss and Jann Kleffner have just publisdhed an article in the US Naval War College's international law journal 'International Law Studies' on international legal aspects of military human enhancement, ie technologies that can endow humans with physical or mental abilities that
go beyond the statistically normal level of functioning. The use of these human enhancement technologies by the
military, for instance in the spheres of biotechnology, cybernetics and
prosthetics, raise a number of questions under the international legal
frameworks governing military technology, namely the law of armed conflict and
human rights law. The article examines these frameworks with a focus on weapons
law, the law pertaining to the detention of and by “enhanced individuals,” the
human rights of those individuals and their responsibility for the actions they
take while under the influence of enhancements.
The article can be accessed at: http://stockton.usnwc.edu/ils/vol92/iss1/14/.
