Control in Weapons Law

This chapter analyses the role that notions of control play in the field of weapons law. For this purpose, the chapter first explores what arms control treaties actually are and where this idea of control features in the treaties. Next, the focus is on the consequences arising from the loss of control of a weapon to determine where responsibility lies for actions that take place after the operator of a weapon has lost control of it. Lastly, the chapter explores the notion of ‘meaningful human control’ as a possible requirement that weapon systems must be subject to. In this context, the author addresses the question of whether control in this context has the same meaning as control in the context of arms control treaties.