The Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare was founded in 2012 to give legal, military, business, and security professionals a serious, peer-reviewed forum for the questions that cyber conflict forces on us: When does a cyber operation cross the threshold of an armed attack? Who may be held responsible, and on what evidence? What limits does the law place on autonomous and AI-enabled systems? How should states and enterprises defend critical infrastructure within the bounds of the law?
The Journal is led by its Editor-in-Chief, Daniel B. Garrie, founder of Law & Forensics, whose work at the intersection of law and technology keeps the Journal grounded in practice as well as scholarship.
What we publish
The bound run stands at 16 peer-reviewed issues, and every one of them has its full table of contents on the volumes page. Around the scholarship we publish plain-language summaries and abstracts in the article index, shorter analysis between issues in The Wire, and a podcast series in which authors and other voices work through the arguments at length. Articles in the bound volumes are peer-reviewed; the views expressed are the authors’ own.
How to read the Journal
Abstracts, summaries, and complete citation metadata are free to read on this site with no sign-in. For work published in a bound issue, the complete text appears in that issue rather than here; a subset of pieces is published on the site in full. The Journal carries a print and an online ISSN, is indexed in HeinOnline’s Law Journal Library and in JSTOR, and is discoverable through them in Google Scholar. Every article page also exports its citation in Bluebook, BibTeX, and RIS form. Cataloguing details, the access model, and the machine-readable endpoints are set out in full for librarians.
Who writes and who edits
Every author who has appeared in a bound issue has a page of their own, listing each work and the issue that holds it; the whole roll is on the contributors index. The Journal works on a peer-review model: a submission is assessed by an editorial board drawn from the academy and from practice, with subject-matter review from specialists in international law, security, and technology. Those board members — their affiliations and the posts they hold — are named on the masthead, where final review rests with the Editor-in-Chief. Our editors are supported by AI-assisted tools and work under human editorial control; what that means in practice, including how citations are checked and how a correction is issued, is set out in the editing policy.
Get involved
We welcome submissions from scholars and practitioners. Read the author guidelines for what we publish, how manuscripts should be prepared, and how blind review works, then submit an article through the portal, which acknowledges receipt with a reference number and a link for tracking the submission. To reach the editors on anything else, use contact.