Afonso Seixas Nunes, S.J.
Assistant Professor
School of Law
Education
Portuguese Catholic University (Porto Law School)
Portuguese Catholic University, Philosophy (Braga Philosophy School)
Pontificia Universit脿 Gregoriana, Theology
London School of Economics, M.A.
University of Essex, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Laws and Armed Conflict
Practice Areas
Originally from Portugal, Afonso Seixas Nunes joins the SLU LAW faculty after having served at Oxford University as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government (ELAC) and as a junior research fellow at Campion Hall. Afonso is also a visiting professor at the Portuguese Catholic University School of Law (UCP- Lisbon). He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 2010.
Research Interests
Afonso specializes in International Public Law in general, and in International Humanitarian Law in particular. Afonso has developed research in areas of new technologies of Warfare, namely Autonomous Weapons Systems and Problems of Individual and State responsibility. Afonso currently teaches International Public Law; International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law.
Publications and Media Placements
'Scapegoats! An assessment of the liability of military commanders for autonomous technologies of warfare' , in Responsible Use of A.I. in Military Systems, CRP and Dutch Ministry of Defence (forthcoming 2024).
Russell Buchan and Nicholas Tsagourias, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law. Stability and Change in Journal of Conflict & Security Law, Vol 28, Issue 1, Spring 2023 (Book Review) ( )
Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Procedural Accountability Gaps (Forthcoming Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol 46, Issue 2, )
Autonomous Weapons Systems. Legality and Accountability. A Humanitarian Law Perspective (Cambridge University Press (2022).
Citizenship in a Networked Age. An Agenda for Rebuilding Our Civic Ideals (Templeton
Foundation. University of Oxford, 2020) (Collaboration)
Autonomous Weapon Systems. Compatibility with International Humanitarian Law in Direito
International e o Uso da For莽a no S茅culo XXI (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade
de Lisboa, 2019)
鈥淯ma guerra pouco humana? Os chamados Sistemas Aut贸nomos de Guerra in Brot茅ria, Vol.
185, issue 2/3, 2017, 229-240