Tech, Law & Security Program

The Evolving Face of Cyber Conflict and International Law:听听A Futurespective

in person symposium

June 15 - 17, 2022

It鈥檚 been a little less than a quarter century since the Morris Worm shook the quixotic orthodoxies about the innate trustworthiness of digital interconnectivity and exposed the soft underbelly of what would shortly explode across the globe 鈥 the Internet.听听Since that time, criminals, non-state actors, and states have leveraged the inherent insecurities and vulnerabilities of cyberspace at an ever-increasing rate and with ever-more harmful impact.听听Data theft, ransomware attacks, and critical infrastructure disruptions, to name a few, are now near daily occurrences.听听Notwithstanding the immense societal risks these activities present, a growing number of states have fully embraced cyber tools and operations as staples in their toolkits of both statecraft and warfare.听听

At the same time, until recently states have remained relatively silent on their views of how international law regulates their cyber activities.听听That has begun to change, however, with an increasing number of states making official pronouncements of their听opinio juris, either independently or through established multilateral processes like the UNGGE and OEWG.听听While this is a positive trend, it has also highlighted several disparate views on critical issues and the difficulty in achieving anything more than limited clarity and consensus.听听What can we discern from these state pronouncements?听听What is the present state of the law governing state cyber activities, and where is it headed?听听That is the focus of this symposium.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

Lieber Institute, West Point

The Federmann Cyber Security Research Center 鈥 Cyber Law Program, Hebrew University

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSiS)

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

Sponsors:

Dentons - Diamond Level听

Mayer Brown - Gold Level

Debevoise & Plimpton - Silver Level

Skadden - Silver Level听

Texas National Security Review - Silver Level

Law &听Forensics -听Symposium Supporter

X Cyber Group Ltd. - Symposium Supporter

Speakers

  • Michael Adams, Zoom
  • Mariana Salazar Albornoz, InterAmerican听Juridical Committee- OAS
  • Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Alcala, Lieber Institute
  • Catherine Amirfar, Debevoise & Plimpton
  • Karine Bannelier, Universit茅 Grenoble Alpes
  • Tess Bridgeman, NYU Reiss Center on Law and Security听
  • Professor Sarah Cleveland, Columbia Law School
  • Michael Diakiwski, Palo Alto Networks
  • Heather Harrison Dinniss, Swedish Defense University听
  • Dan Efrony, Federmann Cybersecurity Center
  • Brian Egan, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &听Flom LLP
  • Professor Kristen Eichensehr, University of听Virginia Law School
  • Veronia R. Glick, Mayer Brown
  • Lt. Col. Davide Giovanneli, NATO CCDCOE
  • Ryan Goodman, NYU Law
  • Colonel Pete Hayden, Staff Judge Advocate, US听Cyber Command
  • Professor Mohamed Helal, Ohio听State University听Moritz College of Law
  • Professor Duncan Hollis, Temple Law School
  • Professor Eric Talbot Jensen, BYU Law School
  • Darin Johnson, Howard University School of Law
  • Professor Rain Liivoja, University of Queensland听Law School听
  • Professor Asaf Lubin, Maurer School of Law
  • Liina Lumiste, NATO CCDCOE
  • Dr. Kubo听惭补肠谩办, International Committee of the听Red Cross
  • Professor Marko Milanovic, University of听Nottingham School of Law
  • Tal Mimran,听Federmann Cybersecurity Research Center
  • Elina Noor,听Asia Society Policy Institute
  • Ori Pomson, University of Cambridge Faculty of听Law
  • Phil Robbins, General Counsel, X Cyber Group
  • Professor Przemyslaw Roguski, Jagiellonian听University in Krak贸w
  • Monica Ruiz, Microsoft
  • David Sanger, New York Times
  • Professor Michael Schmitt, Lieber Institute, West听Point
  • Annita Larisa Sciacovelli, Professor of International Law, University of Bari and Consultant, UniBa/BVTECH听听
  • Scott Shackelford,听Indiana University Maurer School of Law听
  • Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, USAF (Ret.), CNAS
  • Yuval Shany,听Federmann Cybersecurity Research Center
  • Talita de Souza Dias, University of Oxford
  • Alissa Starzak, Cloudflare
  • Arun Mohan Sukumar, Fletcher School, TuftsUniversity
  • Wieteke Theeuwen,听International Law Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands听
  • Eneken Tikk, Cyber Policy Institute听
  • Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Digital Society Institute
  • Jennifer Trahan, NYU Center for Global Affairs
  • Professor Nicolas Tsagourias, University of听Sheffield
  • Tsvetelina van Benthem, Oxford University听
  • Marguerite Walter, US Department of State
  • Professor Sean Watts, Lieber Institute, West听Point
  • TJ White, Vice Admiral (Retired), US Navy听
  • Thomas Wingfield, RAND Corp.听
  • Danielle Yeow Ping Lin, Centre of Excellence for National Security听
  • Lixin Zhu - Associate Professor, Xi鈥檃n Jiaotong听University

Video recordings听

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