Required Reading

Session 1: Status of Cyberwar in the Law of Armed Conflict

1. Oona A. Hathaway, Rebecca Crootof, Philip Levitz, Haley Nix, Aileen Nowlan, William Perdue, Julia Spiegel, The Law Of Cyber-Attack California Law Review, Forthcoming 2012
2. David Turns, Cyber Warfare and the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities” Journal of Conflict & Security Law, Summer 2012
3. Sean Watts, Combatant Status and Computer Network Attacks” From the Selected Works of Sean Watts, February 2010

 

Session 2: Are Offensive Uses of Cyberweapons Justified for National Security

1. Harold Koh, “International Law in Cyberspace” State Department
2. David Sanger, Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, Chapter 8 “Olympic Games”
3. Randall R. Dipert, The Ethics of Cyberwarfare Ethics and Emerging Military Technologies, December 16, 2010
4. James Cook, Cyberation and Just War Doctrine: A Response to Randall Dipert Journal of Military Ethics, 2010
5. Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, Department of Defense, July 2011

 

Session 3: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Police Powers

1. Nicole Perlroth, Software Meant to fight Crime is Used to Spy on Dissidents, New York Times
2. Kerry L. Childe, Cybersecurity and Privacy: Three Federal Proposals SciTech Lawyer
3. Anita L. Allen, The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit The Monist, 2008

 

Session 4: Cyberwar and International Humanitarian Law

1. Patrick Lin, Fritz Allhoff, and Neil Rowe, Is It Possible to Wage a Just Cyberwar? The Atlantic, June 5, 2012
2. Roger Crisp, Cyberwarfare: No new Ethics Needed” Practical Ethics, June 19, 2012
3. Jeffrey T.G. Kelsey, Hacking into International Humanitarian Law: The Principles of Distinction and Neutrality in the Age of Cyber Warfare
4. Lt. Col. Patrick Franzese. “SOVEREIGNTY IN CYBERSPACE: Can it exist?” Air Force Law
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5. Michael N. Schmitt, “Attack” as a Term of Art in International Law: The Cyber Operations Context
6. Daniel Rosenfield, “Rethinking Cyberwar” Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society

 

Session 5: Cybersecurity and the Private Sector

1. Mary Ellen O’Connell, Cyber Security without Cyber War Journal of Conflict & Security Law, 2012
2. Susan W. Brenner with Leo L. Clarke, Civilians in Cyberwarfare: Conscripts Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
3. Amitai Etzioni, Cybersecurity and the Private Sector Issues in Science and Technology
4. Eric A. Fischer, Federal laws Relating to Cybersecurity: Discussion of Proposed Revisions Congressional Research Service, April 23, 2012
5. Tim Maurer, Breaking Bad: How America’s Biggest Corporation Became Cyber Vigilantes Foreign Policy Magazine, September 10th, 2012