The Use of Drones and the Law
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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
Plenary
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German and English languageThe US has increased the use of drones against identified enemies, in particular during the Obama administration. These decisions to kill are made without any formal procedures complying with constitutional guarantees. What repercussions does this have on the Western democratic understanding of a constitutional state?
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Michael W. LEWIS
Former US-Navy Fighter Pilot; Ella A. & Ernest H. Fisher Professor of Law, Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University, Ada
| Professor Lewis joined the Ohio Northern faculty in August, 2006. Lewis flew F-14's for the United States Navy in Operation Desert Shield, conducted strike planning for Desert Storm and was deployed to the Persian Gulf to enforce the no-fly zone over Iraq. He was a Topgun graduate in 1992 and was featured in a NOVA documentary on Topgun and aircraft carriers. After his naval service, Lewis graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, and served as a litigation associate with McGuireWoods, LLP, in Norfolk, Virginia. He currently teaches Commercial Law, International Law, a Law of War Seminar and Torts. He has also taught Corporate Finance and Accounting for Lawyers. |
Dr. LL.M. Manfred NOWAK
Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Vienna; Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights, Vienna; Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, Vienna
| since 1973 | Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Constitutional Law, International Law and Human Rights, Law School, University of Vienna |
| 1987-1989 | Director, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht University |
| 1989-2001 | Professor of Law, Austrian Academy of Public Administration, Vienna |
| 1996-2003 | Judge, Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo |
| 1993-2006 | United Nation Expert on Enforced Disappearances, Geneva |
| 2004-2010 | United Nation Special Rapporteur on Torture, Geneva |
| since 2012 | Vice-Chair of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency, Vienna |
| Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lund, Sweden (2002, 2003), Venice (2004), Geneva (2008, 2009), Stanford (2014) |
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