Date: 2020
Type: Book
Cyber operations and international law
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
DELERUE, François, Cyber operations and international law, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/66406
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the international law applicable to cyber operations, including a systematic examination of attribution, lawfulness and remedies. It demonstrates the importance of countermeasures as a form of remedies and also shows the limits of international law, highlighting its limits in resolving issues related to cyber operations. There are several situations in which international law leaves the victim State of cyber operations helpless. Two main streams of limits are identified. First, in the case of cyber operations conducted by non-state actors on the behalf of a State, new technologies offer various ways to coordinate cyber operations without a high level of organization. Second, the law of State responsibility offers a range of solutions to respond to cyber operations and seek reparation, but it does not provide an answer in every case and it cannot solve the problem related to technical capabilities of the victim.
Table of Contents:
-- 1. Does international law matter in cyberspace? -- Part I: Attribution -- 2. Attribution to a machine or a human: a technical process -- 3. The Question of Evidence: From Technical to Legal Attribution -- 4. Attribution to a state -- Part II: The lawfulness of cyber operations -- 5. Internationally wrongful cyber acts: cyber operations breaching norms of international law -- 6. The threshold of cyber warfare: from use of cyber force to cyber armed attack -- 7. Circumstances precluding or attenuating the wrongfulness of unlawful cyber operations -- 8. Cyber operations and the principle of due diligence -- Part III: Remedies against state-sponsored cyber operations -- 9. State responsibility and the consequences of an internationally wrongful cyber operation -- 10. Measures of self-help against state-sponsored cyber operations -- 11. Conclusion
Additional information:
Awarded the 2021 European Society of International Law (ESIL) Book Prize during the 16th ESIL Annual Conference in Stockholm.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/66406
Full-text via DOI: 10.1017/9781108780605
ISBN: 9781108780605
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/43904
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2016
