Old rules for new problems? Assessing Roscini’s take on the cyberspace between jus ad bellum and jus in bello

Applying the Jus in Bello in the Cyber Domain: Navigating between lex lata and lex ferenda

In the 1983 movie War Games, the leading character is a young hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict the possible outcomes of nuclear war, and then proceeds to start his favourite game: Global Thermonuclear War. What we know, but the computer geek does not, is that the US military,...

The use of cyber force: Is the jus ad bellum ready?

The issue of international cyber attacks has given rise to discussions within and between many academic disciplines,[1] has been discussed within international fora,[2] and is never far away from the headlines of the global media.[3] There are many explanatory reasons for this interest; the fact that such attacks involve computers which, today, we all use...