Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare Est. 2012
The Law of Cyber Conflict When does a line of code become an act of war?
The leading peer-reviewed forum on the law of cyber conflict — attribution and sovereignty, autonomous weapons, critical infrastructure, and the legal frontier of cyberwarfare. Read by legal, military, and security professionals across the globe.
16 issues published 69+ peer-reviewed works
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FCC Moves to Drop Test Labs in Non-Reciprocal Economies From Its Equipment Authorization Program
Nearly every wireless consumer device imported into or marketed in the United States passes through the Federal Communications Commission's equipment authorization program. The Commission does not run that testing…
Seizing the Middle Layer: Integrity Tech, AA26-281A, and the Limits of Criminal Process Against State Contractors
On October 8, 2026, the United States moved against a Chinese hacking contractor on two fronts at once. The Justice Department and FBI announced court-authorized seizures of domains behind two tools, "Microscan" and…
Scam Compounds Test the Limits of Due Diligence and Attribution in International Law
Two documents made public in the final week of October 2026 approach industrial-scale online fraud from opposite directions. A Lawfare essay published on October 30 asks whether a state that tolerates scam operations…
From Safe Harbors to Duties of Care: Rethinking Platform Liability for Illegal Content in Comparative Perspective
For much of the Internet’s legal history, intermediary liability has been structured around a defensive question: when should an online service provider be protected from liability for unlawful content created by…
The UN's Global Mechanism on ICTs Meets Reality: Geopolitical Fault Lines at the First Substantive Plenary
The summer of 2026 was meant to mark a turning point in the long and fitful effort to establish durable multilateral governance of cyberspace. After six rounds of time-bound groups of governmental experts (GGEs) and…
Regulation of Dark Web Activities: Legal and Enforcement Challenges in Pakistan
The rapid expansion of digital technologies has led to the emergence of the dark web as a concealed segment of the internet that facilitates both legitimate privacy-oriented communication and a wide range of illicit…
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The Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare welcomes submissions of Articles, Essays, and Practitioner Briefings on the law of cyber conflict — the international and domestic law of cyber operations, sovereignty and attribution, national-security policy, and the legal frontier of emerging technology. Each manuscript is peer-reviewed, edited to the standard of the leading law reviews, and published under the Journal’s ISSN at a permanent citable URL — with the bound issue carried by HeinOnline and JSTOR, where the Journal has been indexed since 2012.
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The Law of Cyber Conflict — at the Harvard Club
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