Drones and Unmanned Aerial Systems

Aleš Završnik Doctor of Law ( LL.D.), Assistant Professor, is researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. He is a postdoctoral Yggdrasil fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at University of Oslo (2012) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute für ausländisches und internationals Strafrecht, Freiburg i. Br. (2009) and a fellow of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva (2008). At the moment he collaborates in the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action “Living in Surveillance Societies” and the COST Action “Cyberbullying”. Aleš Završnik edited a book Crime and Technology: How Computers Transform Surveillance and Privacy, Crime and Crime Control? (2010) and published a book Homo Criminalis: Images of a Criminal in High- Tech Risk Society (2009). He has researched and published on theoretical criminology, criminal law and “law and technology”, i.e. cybercrime, cyber-law and surveillance. He is a member of the editorial board of the Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology. Contact information: Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Poljanski nasip 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

• Introduction: Situating drones in surveillance societies.- I. Political Technology of Drones.- 1. Mark Andrejevic: Theorizing Drones and Droning Theory.- 2. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik: The Political and Moral Economies of Dual Technology Transfers: Arming Police Drones.- II. Drones Between Privacy and Security.- 3. Primož Gorkič: The (F)Utility of Privacy Laws: The Case of Drones.- 4. Sanja Milivojevič: Re-bordering the Peripheral Global North and Global South: Game of Drones, Immobilising Mobile Bodies and Decentring Perspectives on Drones in Border Policing.- 5. Luisa Marin and Kamila Krajčíková: Deploying Drones in Policing Southern European Borders: Constraints and Challenges for Data Protection and Human Rights.- III. Drones, the “War on Terror” and Public International Law.- 6. Mélanie De Groof: Death from the Sky: International Legal and Practical Issues on the Use of Armed Drones.- 7. Vasja Badalič: The Predators’ Rule of Terror.- IV. Drones and International Air Law.- 8. Pablo Mendes de Leon and Benjamyn Ian Scott: An Analysis of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Under Air Law.- V. Domain-Specific Uses of Drones.- 9. David Goldberg: Droning on about Journalism: Remotely Piloted Aircraft and Newsgathering.- 10. Aleš Završnik: Drones, Resistance, and Counter-Surveillance.