Dr. B.L. (Berenice) Boutin
- Schimmelpennincklaan 20-22
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Postbus 15544
1001 NA Amsterdam
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Profile
Dr Berenice Boutin is Senior Researcher in International Law at the Asser Institute, Coordinator of the Research Strand on Disruptive Technologies in Peace and Security, and project leader of the NWO-funded project Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence (DILEMA).
The DILEMA project explores interdisciplinary perspectives on military AI, with a focus on legal, ethical, and technical perspectives on safeguarding human agency over military AI. It analyses in particular subtle ways in which AI can affect or reduce human agency, and seeks to ensure compliance and accountability by design. For more information on the project, research team, and research results, see the project’s website.
The Research Strand on Disruptive Technologies in Peace and Security conducts research on technologies that have disruptive implications for international security and international law, such as military AI, data-driven warfare, biochemical weapons, and conventional weapons or dual use technologies with a disruptive potential. Our research focuses, in particular, on the development of the international regulatory framework for the military and security applications of disruptive technologies. Two main lines of enquiry guide our research: on the one hand, we question how legal norms and ethical values can shape technologies, and on the other hand we analyse how technologies challenge our legal and ethical concepts.
Dr Boutin currently co-supervises two PhD candidates: Taylor Woodcock and Klaudia Klonowska.
Dr Boutin is the coordinator of the Asser Institute’s Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law, a training programme of the Asser Institute, member of the Editorial Board of OXIO, and Associate Fellow with the SHARES Project.
Dr Boutin previously received funding from Gerda Henkel Stiftung for a research project on the Conceptual and Policy Implications of Increasingly Autonomous Military Technologies for State Responsibility Under International Law (2018-2019). She has been Managing Editor of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (2016–2019), and Research Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) (2015–2018).
Full profile: www.asser.nl/bereniceboutin
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Publications
2023
Boutin, B. (2023). State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence. Leiden Journal of International Law, 36(1), 133-150. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156522000607 [details]
2022
- Boutin, B. L., & Woodcock, T. K. (in press). Aspects of Realizing (Meaningful) Human Control: A Legal Perspective. In R. Geiß, & H. Lahmann (Eds.), Research Handbook on Warfare and Artificial Intelligence Edward Elgar Publishing. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4109202
2021
- Nedeski, N., & Boutin, B. (2021). The Continuing Saga of State Responsibility for the Conduct of Peacekeeping Forces: Recent Practice of Dutch and Belgian Courts. In O. Spijkers, W. G. Werner, & R. A. Wessel (Eds.), Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2019: Yearbooks in International Law: History, Function and Future (pp. 309-332). (Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; Vol. 50). Asser Press. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-403-7_25 [details]
2020
- Boutin, B. (2020). The Interplay of International Obligations Connected to the Conduct of Others: Toward a Framework of Mutual Compliance Among States Engaged in Partnered Warfare. International Law Studies (Naval War College), 96, 529-548. https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/ils/vol96/iss1/17/ [details]
- Nollkaemper, A., d' Aspremont, J., Ahlborn, C., Boutin, B., Nedeski, N., Plakokefalos, I., & Jacobs, D. (2020). Guiding Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law. European Journal of International Law, 31(1), 15-72. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chaa017 [details]
2019
- Boutin, B. (2019). Shared Responsibility for Cyber Operations. AJIL unbound, 113, 197–201. https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2019.31 [details]
2017
- Boutin, B. (2017). Attribution of Conduct in International Military Operations: A Causal Analysis of Effective Control. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 18(2), 154–179. https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/3152514/Boutin-unpaginated.pdf [details]
- Boutin, B. (2017). Responsibility in Connection with the Conduct of Military Partners. Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre = The Military Law and Law of War Review, 56(1), 57–91. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/mllwr56&i=58 [details]
2016
- Boutin, B. (2016). Administrative Measures in Counter-Terrorism and the Protection of Human Rights. Security and Human Rights, 27(1–2), 128–147. https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-02701010 [details]
2012
- Boutin, B. (2012). Responsibility of the Netherlands for the acts of Dutchbat in Nuhanović and Mustafić: the continuous quest for a tangible meaning for ‘effective control’ in the context of peacekeeping. Leiden Journal of International Law, 25(2), 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156512000192 [details]
Prize / grant
- Boutin, B. (2020). KNAW Early Career Partnership.
- Boutin, B. (2019). Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence (DILEMA). https://www.asser.nl/dilema
- Boutin, B. (2018). Conceptual and Policy Implications of Increasingly Autonomous Military Technologies for State Responsibility under International Law.
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Boutin, B. (2023). State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence. Leiden Journal of International Law, 36(1), 133-150. Advance online publication.