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Rain Liivoja
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International law, military operations and military technology | he/him | 🇪🇪🇦🇺

Professor @uqlaw.bsky.social | Director @apils.org | Adjunct Professor @helsinki.fi | Senior Fellow @ West Point

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With NATO #CCDCOE support, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Aleksi Kajander and Maarja Naagel on a project looking at the legal requirements and tech standards for the #cybersecurity of weapon systems. Our paper is now out in OUP's Journal of Cybersecurity

academic.oup.com/cybersecurit...
An image of an unmanned ground vehicle (Milrem THeMIS) and a remote-controlled weapon station. The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.
August 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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And I've had this one, framed, on my wall for almost a decade.
December 21, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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I didn't always agree with Michael Leunig but I frequently found his work insightful and often just delightfully heartwarming. He will be missed.

This piece, Kindness, has always been one of my favourites. I was so pleased to get a signed and inscribed print for someone who was important to me.
Kindness by Michael Leunig
December 21, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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Check out the call for papers for the 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference — International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance:

www.anzsil.org.au/32nd-ANZSIL-...

We'll be freezing our hineys off in Canberra 2–4 July 2025 but the incredible ANZSIL spirit will make it worthwhile!
December 16, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 17
Cover of Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
December 8, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 16
Cover of A Memory of Solferino by Henry Dunant
December 6, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 15
Cover of Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire
December 5, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 14
Cover of My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
December 4, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 13
The cover of I Am Right, You Are Wrong by Edward de Bono
December 3, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 12
Cover of Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
December 2, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 11
The cover of Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures) by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson
December 1, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 10
The cover of The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
November 30, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 9
John Grisham, The Chamber
November 29, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 8
Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
November 28, 2024 at 7:34 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 7
Jaroslav Hasek, The Good Soldier Svejk
November 27, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 6
Tove Jansson, Moominland Midwinter
November 26, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 5
Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: the true story of a friendship that survives four decades of the world's bitterest conflict
November 25, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 4
November 24, 2024 at 5:54 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 3
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
November 23, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 2
AA Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
November 22, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#BookSky
#BookChallenge

Day 1
Ernst Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
November 21, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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In April 2024, the Australian Defence Force hosted the Second Expert Meeting on the Legal Review of Autonomous Weapon Systems. The report of the meeting is now out: doi.org/10.14264/c41.... #autonomousweapons #militaryAI #armscontrol #internationallaw #legalreview @apils.org
September 19, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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And we're off! Prof Alison Duxbury opening the 31st #ANZSIL Annual Conference – International Law: Crisis, Conflict and Cooperation at Melbourne Law School #intlaw #unimelb #melbournelawschool
July 2, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (#anzsil) will hold its 31st annual conference in Melbourne on 3–5 July 2024. The theme is International Law: Crisis, Conflict & Cooperation. Proposals for papers and panels are most welcome until 12 February #intlaw anzsil.org.au/page-18089
Melbourne skyline at sunrise in
January 12, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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If you are (of know of) a health and medical law aficionado interested in working in sunny Brisbane with some really good people at the University of Queensland law and medical schools, take a look at this: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...
Sandstone cloisters at the University of Queensland
January 8, 2024 at 11:59 AM