Yoriko Otomo
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Yoriko Otomo is a critical legal scholar whose research sits at the intersection of international law, gender studies, and technology. Her work interrogates how legal frameworks shape—and are shaped by—military violence, environmental degradation, and emerging technologies. Otomo’s most-cited paper, “Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century” (2018), offers a groundbreaking analysis of how autonomous weapons and algorithmic warfare are gendered, challenging traditional understandings of conflict and peace. Drawing on examples from Boston Dynamics’ robots to the US Department of Defense’s Project Maven, she reveals the often-invisible ways that technological militarism reproduces patriarchal and colonial logics. Though her citation counts are modest, Otomo’s influence extends through her innovative theoretical contributions to feminist legal theory and posthumanist approaches to international law. She has also published widely on animal law, property, and the legal personhood of nonhumans, pushing the boundaries of who—and what—counts in legal discourse. For students and researchers, Otomo’s work offers a vital, unsettling lens through which to see law not as a neutral tool, but as a deeply political force shaping our technological and ecological futures.
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