Tobias Vestner
Dr Tobias Vestner is the Director of the Research and Policy Advice Department and the Head of the Security and Law Programme at the GCSP. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, a Fellow at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. He serves as reserve Legal Advisor at the Swiss Armed Forces Staff.
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29 October 2020
Quo Vadis, Abrüstung?
18 December 2018
Maj Gen (Retd) Blaise Cathcart and Tobias Vestner Discuss the Role of the Legal Advisor
Publications
28 February 2025
Shaping the Evolution of International Law in View of its Core Effects
29 August 2024
Rules of Engagement as Regulatory Framework for Military Artificial Intelligence
1 May 2024
The Divide between War and Peace
18 March 2024
The Law of Targeting’s Mechanisation and Objectivisation through the Use of Artificial Intelligence
17 February 2023
From Strategy to Orders: Preparing and Conducting Military Operations with Artificial Intelligence
10 January 2023
The Nexus Between Responsible Military AI and International Law
8 June 2022
Treaty Law to Signal to Outsiders: The Case of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
11 February 2021
The New Geopolitics of the Arms Trade Treaty
16 December 2020
Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space: Multilateral Negotiations’ Effects on International Law
3 August 2020
Targeting Private Military and Security Companies
16 December 2019
Addressing the Use of Human Shields
16 May 2019
Synergies between the Arms Trade Treaty and the Wassenaar Arrangement
Strategic Security Analysis - May 2019
2 April 2019
Prohibitions and Export Assessment: Tracking Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty
Four years after the entry into force of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), how do states parties implement its core provisions regarding the authorization of arms transfers?