Cyber
Ukraine Symposium – The Law of Crowdsourced War: Democratized Supply Chains – Part II
In the first of this two-part post addressing the legal and practical implications of democratized supply chains, I focused on the individual risks that those who engage in these activities incur. I explored whether their actions can amount to direct participation in...
Dimensions of Russian Aggression and the International Legal Order
Russia’s war against Ukraine has many dimensions: conventional, economic, cyber, informational, and cultural. Recent research, prepared by the Economic Security Council of Ukraine in cooperation with the State Service of Special Communication and Information...
Debate on a Digital Emblem: The Specific Protection of Healthcare Facilities
Recently, debate ramped up around the idea of a digital emblem to signal the legal protection of medical facilities in the cyber domain. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) published an extensive study in which it proposes different solutions to...
A Digital Red Cross: What Would It Defend Against?
On November 18, 1991, after enduring a three-month artillery assault, the city of Vukovar in Croatia fell to what was then known as the federal Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and Serb paramilitary forces. After JNA units took control of a hospital where hundreds of sick...
As Warfare Digitalizes, So Should Protection: Towards a “Digital Emblem”
As societies digitalize, cyber operations have become a reality of armed conflict. In the United Nations, States have identified the increasing likelihood of the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in future conflicts between States as a threat...
Cyber Symposium – The Private Sector View on Use of Force
Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed in the symposium entitled The Evolving Face of Cyber Conflict and International Law: A Futurespective presented by the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at the American University, Washington College...
Cyber Symposium – The Evolution of Cyber Jus ad Bellum Thresholds
Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed in the symposium entitled The Evolving Face of Cyber Conflict and International Law: A Futurespective presented by the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at the American University, Washington College...
Cyber Symposium – Diplomatic Considerations for Armed Attack
Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed in the symposium entitled The Evolving Face of Cyber Conflict and International Law: A Futurespective presented by the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at the American University, Washington College...
Cyber Symposium – The Evolving Face of Cyber Conflict and the Jus ad Bellum: A Futurespective
From 15 through 17 June 2022, the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare met in Washington, D.C. with the Tech, Law & Security Program at the American University, Washington College of Law to present a symposium entitled The Evolving Face of Cyber Conflict and...
The Law of Cyber Conflict: Quo Vadis?
[Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed in the Lieber Studies volume The Future Law of Armed Conflict, which was published 27 May 2022. For a general introduction to this volume, see Professor Matt Waxman’s introductory post.] Using...
Ukraine Symposium – U.S. Offensive Cyber Operations in Support of Ukraine
Last Wednesday, General Paul Nakasone, Commander of United States Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency, opened the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence’s annual CyCon Conference. In his address, General Nakasone discussed the...
Ukraine Symposium – Military Networks and Cyber Operations in the War in Ukraine
When Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, many expected that the kinetic military action would be accompanied by extensive cyber operations. After all, the Sandworm group, an advanced persistent threat (APT) team forming part of Russia’s...