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Tsagourias, Nicholas; Buchan, Russell --- "Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) [2015] ELECD 685

Editor(s): Tsagourias, Nicholas; Buchan, Russell

Title: Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace

Series: Research Handbooks in International Law series

Topics: Internet and Technology Law; Public International Law; Regulation and Governance; Terrorism and Security Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 26 June 2015

Number of pages: c 560

ISBN (hard cover): 9781782547389

ISBN (soft cover): 9781786437587

EISBN: 9781782547396

Abstract/Description:

This timely Research Handbook contains an analysis by leading scholars and practitioners of various legal questions concerning cyberspace and cyber activities. Comprehensive and thorough, it succeeds in mapping out the range of international rules that apply to cyberspace and to specific cyber activities, assesses their regulatory efficacy and offers insightful suggestions, where necessary, for revised standards.

Contributors examine the application of fundamental international law principles to cyberspace such as the principle of sovereignty, jurisdiction, state responsibility, individual criminal responsibility, human rights and intellectual property rights. They explore the application of international rules to cyber terrorism, cyber espionage, cyber crime, cyber attacks and to cyber war. They deal with the meaning of cyber operations, the ethics of cyber operations as well as with cyber deterrence. Finally, they comment on the cyber security policies of international and regional institutions such as those of the United Nations, the European Union, NATO and of Asian-Pacific institutions.

This Research Handbook will benefit scholars in the fields of international law, international relations, public and private law. Researchers will find the suggested future research avenues in this field invaluable whilst policy-makers and practitioners will gain fresh insights into topical issues concerning the regulation of cyberspace and of cyber activities.