This research project will first map the relevant international regulatory framework for military bioscience, encompassing the law of armed conflict, human rights law, public health law, environmental law and international criminal law. It will then identify the foreseeable performance enhancement and degradation techniques that are likely to put strains on that regulatory framework. The next phase of the project will entail an in-depth assessment of the regulatory challenges created by the particular techniques – whether such techniques might generally or under some circumstances directly contravene the law, whether they might create challenges in allocating responsibility for compliance with the law, and so forth. The final stage of the project will involve an assessment of the adequacy of the existing law and will lead to the development of proposals for amendments and revisions to the regulatory framework.
