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Tools for Researching International Law Principles for Managing Cyber Conflicts

Listed below are tools for researching international law principles that are relevant to the management of cyber conflicts, as well as the Tallinn Manual, which applies these principles to cyberspace.

Scholars continue to debate whether existing international law principles-including those that govern warfare-are sufficient to address cyber attacks or whether a new legal framework is needed to manage conflicts in cyberspace. Although various proposals for drafting a cyberspace treaty have been floated, none have borne fruit, and it is unlikely that a new treaty will emerge any time soon. The law of war is the subset of public international law that governs armed conflicts. It includes criteria for determining whether the use of force is justifiable ( jus ad bellum), as well as rules governing the conduct of warfare ( jus in bello), also known as international humanitarian law (IHL).

The law of armed conflict cyber warfare