Future Conflict: The International Law of Cyber and Information Convergence

Third Annual in-person symposium on Cyber & International Law

September 23 - 25, 2024

For some time now, the focus of discussions about international law’s role in regulating cyberspace has been almost exclusively on cyber effects—that is, operations targeting the functionality of information and communications technologies (ICT) or the confidentiality, availability or integrity of the data and information resident thereon.  But as recent history demonstrates, the advent of cyberspace has also enabled and evolved the realm of information conflict, with an attendant and inevitable convergence of cyber and information operations.  Whereas some states have long approached cyberspace through the broader lens of “information confrontation,” others are playing catch up to the threats posed by “cyber-enabled information operations” and assessing whether doctrinal barriers between cyber and information operations are artificial and should come down.  The international law implications of this trend toward convergence are profound, implicating critical questions across the spectrum of war and peace, and hence the law of state responsibility, international human rights and humanitarian law.  

The Tech, Law, & Security Program (TLS) is excited to once again host our annual symposium at the American University Washington College of Law on September 23-25, 2024.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

The Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore

The Federmann Cyber Security Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Lieber Institute, West Point

The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

KEYNOTES:

Lieutenant General Maria Barrett, Commander, US Army Cyber Command

Glenn A. Corn, US IC (retired)

Jason Che-Shang Huang, Senior Specialist, Office of the Director General, Administration for Cyber Security, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Taiwan

SPEAKERS:

Captain Maggie Smith, US Army; Senior Fellow, Tech, Law & Security Program

Jack Stubbs, Grafika

Yuval Shany, Federmann Cybersecurity Research Center

David Kaye, Director, International Justice Clinic, UCI Law

Carme Colomina Saló; Barcelona Centre for International Affair

Christian Ohanian, Mastercard, Senior Fellow, Tech, Law & Security Program

Katelyn Ringrose, Google

Nemanja (Nemo) Malisevic, Microsoft

Nick Ashton-Hart, APCO Worldwide

Megan Stifel, ISET

Arthur Traldi, Senior Fellow, Tech, Law & Security Program

Talita de Sousa Diaz, Chatham House

Amit Schejter, Institute for Information Policy, Penn State University

Eric Talbot Jensen, Brigham Young Law School

Danielle Yeow, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore

Kerry Ann-Barrett, Organization of American States

Mohamed Helal, Moritz College of Law

Dr. Fan Yang, Xiamen University

Sean Watts, Lieber Institute, West Point

Captain Peter Pascucci, US Cyber Command

Tildman Rodenhauser, International Committee of the Red Cross

Duncan Hollis, Temple Law School

Maria Tolppa, CCDCOE

Dr. Anna-Maria Osula, International Centre for Defense and Security

Jack Kenny, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Munira Mustaffa, Executive Director, Chasseur Group

Asaf Lubin, Maurer School of Law