Cybersecurity & Tech

AJIL Online Symposium on Sovereignty in Relation to Cyber Operations

Ashley Deeks
Tuesday, August 22, 2017, 1:00 PM

AJIL Unbound, which supplements the American Journal of International Law’s print edition by publishing short, original essays online, today posted a symposium on sovereignty, cyber operations, and the Tallinn Manual 2.0.

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AJIL Unbound, which supplements the American Journal of International Law’s print edition by publishing short, original essays online, today posted a symposium on sovereignty, cyber operations, and the Tallinn Manual 2.0. The symposium includes an introduction by Tom Ginsburg and essays by Gary Corn & Robert Taylor, Michael Schmitt & Liis Vihul, Phil Spector, and Ahmed Ghappour.

In their essays, the contributors explore and debate the nature of sovereignty in the cyber context. One key question – on which some of the contributors disagree – is whether sovereignty constitutes a stand-alone, binding international legal norm that states violate when they engage in certain cyber operations that fall below the level of a use of force, or, alternatively, whether sovereignty is a principle that simply informs other primary international rules of conduct. This is an important debate, one that the essays frame well.

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Ashley Deeks

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Ashley Deeks is the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law at the University of Virginia Law School and a Faculty Senior Fellow at the Miller Center. She serves on the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law. In 2021-22 she worked as the Deputy Legal Advisor at the National Security Council. She graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and clerked on the Third Circuit.

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