Author profile: Mary Ellen O'Connell and Brian Boyd

Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. Her principal areas of research are international law on the use of force and international legal theory. She comments regularly in the press on use of force and weapons issues.

Brian Boyd is a graduate student in moral theology whose work focuses on the intersection of technology, economics, and ethics. He has previously written for http://www.thenewatlantis.com/

Drone Technology and the Trump Doctrine

Mary Ellen O'Connell and Brian Boyd • Jun 29 2017 • Articles

Trump is not breaking new ground in using greater lethal force than predecessors and ignoring international law, rather taking the direction towards a logical conclusion.

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