Liivoja & McCormack: Law in the Virtual Battlespace: The Tallinn Manual and the Jus in Bello

Rain Liivoja (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) & Tim McCormack (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) have posted Law in the Virtual Battlespace: The Tallinn Manual and the Jus in Bello (Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This paper aims to offer some critical thought on the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare as regards its approach to the law of armed conflict. The paper makes some observations on the methodology of drafting the Manual and highlights a few issues of substantive law that illustrate the difficulties in applying the law of armed conflict to cyber operations.