Taylor Kate Woodcock LL.M.

Profile

Taylor commenced her position as PhD researcher in public international law at the Asser Institute, UvA, in September 2020. Taylor's research examines the implications of the development and use of military applications of artificial intelligence (AI) for international law, with a specific emphasis on International Humanitarian Law. She takes a practice-oriented approach to exploring the relation between international law and human agency, considering how the interaction between data-driven algorithms and military practitioners impacts this relationship. This PhD project is part of the research project Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence (DILEMA), funded by NWO–MVI Programme on Responsible Innovation (2020–2024). Taylor has research experience in various fields of international law, including international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and international arms control and disarmament law.    

Taylor graduated cum laude from the Leiden University LL.M. specialising in Public International Law (2019). She also has a double degree in Law and International Studies (International Relations Major) as part of her undergraduate studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Following her studies, Taylor completed a year-long internship at the Asser Institute in the research strand ‘Human Dignity and Human Security in International and European Law’. Her key areas of research in this position included international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. She was also a pro-bono research assistant at the strategic human rights litigation practice, Human Rights in Practice. 

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Publications

• T K Woodcock, 'Human/Machine(-Learning) Interactions, Human Agency and the International Humanitarian Law Proportionality Standard' (2024) 38 Global Society 100.
• B Boutin & T K Woodcock, 'Aspects of Realizing (Meaningful) Human Control: A Legal Perspective', forthcoming in: Geiß, R. and Lahmann, H. (eds.), Research Handbook on Warfare and Artificial Intelligence, Edward Elgar Publishing.
• T Woodcock, ‘Eclipsing Human Rights: Why the International Regulation of Military AI is not Limited to International Humanitarian Law’, Human Rights Here Blog, 13 July 2021.
• T Woodcock, ‘Artificial intelligence: Is the answer more law?’, Asser Blog, 25 January 2021.
• K Roithmaier, T Woodcock, & E Dima, ‘Year in Review 2019’ in: Gill, T.D., Geiß, R., Krieger, H. & Paulussen, C. (eds.), Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Vol. 22 (2019), The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press (2021): 187-286.
• A Duval, T Woodcock, & D Van Den Meerssche, ‘I Want to Put the Social Question Back on the Table’ – An Interview with Anne Orford’, Opinio Juris, 27 November 2019.
• M Bo & T Woodcock, ‘Lethal autonomous weapons, war crimes, and the Convention on Conventional Weapons’, The Global, 28 May 2019.