Bailey Ulbricht: Re-imagining International Law’s Prohibition on the Use of Force

​Bailey Ulbricht will present initial findings from ongoing scholarship examining the possible demise of international law's prohibition on the use of force and a potential - if not uncontroversial - pathway forward leveraging a long-standing international legal principle known as necessity. The aim of this talk is to foster honest reflections about international law and to attempt to chart a pathway forward.

​Bailey Ulbricht is the founding executive director of the Stanford Humanitarian Program, through which she has pursued projects focused on technology, harm, and international law, primarily in armed conflict settings. Her research interests include international laws and norms governing the use of force, the law of armed conflict, international human rights law, and Indigenous data sovereignty. Her work is published or forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal of International Law, the New Mexico Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law and Technology Journal, and the International Review of the Red Cross.