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Prohibited Chemical and Biological Weapons and the Law: Legal Responses to Lethal Innovation book cover

1st Edition

Prohibited Chemical and Biological Weapons and the Law Legal Responses to Lethal Innovation

Edited By Stacey Henderson Copyright 2026
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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Scientific advances in the biological and chemical sciences can offer significant benefits to humanity, but these discoveries may also lead to the proliferation of novel classes of weapons and new uses for them. This book explores the current challenges, risks, and opportunities posed by new scientific discoveries in this area. Focusing on non-human consequences of the use of chemical and... Read more

 1. Lessons from Historical Chemical and Biological Weapons Programs
Stacey Henderson

2. Prohibiting Chemical and Biological Weapons
Stacey Henderson

3. Chemical and Biological Weapons and the Protection of Agriculture under the Law of Armed Conflict
Jennifer van Bruinessen and Emily Crawford

4. The new WMD: Agriculture and Weapons of Mass Disruption
Wendy Bonython and Bruce Baer Arnold

5. Regulating Environmental Damage – The ENMOD Convention
Rachel Neef and Joanna Jarose

6. Preventing the Proliferation of Innovation: Chemical and Biological Weapons Regulations
Joel Lisk

7. Technology Threatening Biosecurity: The Problem of “Dual-Use” Definitions in the Age of AI and Synthetic Biology
Brendan Walker-Munro

8. The Limits of Jurisdiction in Relation to Trafficking in Weaponizable Chemical and Biological Material via the High Seas
Rob McLaughlin

9. From Crisis to Hope? Reflections on the Prohibitions on the Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons
Stacey Henderson and Todd A Gillam

Biography

Stacey Henderson is Associate Professor in Law at Flinders University, Australia.

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