Cyber Law Toolkit

Where cyber operations and international law meet. (Call for new submissions - Dec 1 deadline)

This is a short post, but it provides a great resource. If you don’t already know about it, the Cyber Law Toolkit pulls together a wonderful collection of helpful resources for people, especially practitioners, interested in international law and cyberspace.

There are two resources that I find particularly helpful. One is its collection of scenarios, each of which applies rules of international law to the facts of specific cyber operations (election interference, cyber deception, cyber operations against medical facilities, and many many more. 28 in total). There’s a call for new submissions, with a Dec 1 deadline (More on that below)

A second section of the Toolkit that I’ve benefited from is its collection of national positions on cyber and international law. Want to know what country X says about the interplay between cyber and sovereignty, or what country Y says about the applicability of international humanitarian law to cyber operations?

Anyways, the Toolkit is a great place to explore and learn, so I wanted to share it with you.

Here’s more info on the call for submissions.

Cyber Law Toolkit is now inviting submissions for its next general update in 2024. Successful authors will be awarded an honorarium. This call for submissions is open until 1 December 2023. Full text of the call with submission dates and contacts is available for download here: Call for submissions (PDF)

Here’s more info about the Toolkit from its website:

The project is supported by the following six partner institutions: the Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, the U.S. Naval War College, United States, and Wuhan University, China. The core of the project team consists of Dr Kubo Mačák (University of Exeter) – General Editor; Mr Tomáš Minárik (NÚKIB) – Managing Editor; and Mr Otakar Horák (CCDCOE) – Scenario Editor. The individual scenarios and the Toolkit as such have been reviewed by a team of over 30 peer reviewers. The Toolkit was formally launched on 28 May 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia; its Chinese launch took place on 2 November 2019 in Wuhan, China; it received its most recent general annual update on 20 October 2022; and it remains continuously updated. For questions about the project including media enquiries, please contact us at cyberlaw@exeter.ac.uk.