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Interpretation Catalysts In Cyberspace, Rebecca Ingber Jun 2017

Interpretation Catalysts In Cyberspace, Rebecca Ingber

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The cybersphere offers a rich space from which to explore the development of international law in a compressed time frame. This piece examines the soft law process over the last decade of the two Tallinn Manuals – handbooks on the international law of cyber warfare and cyber operations – as a valuable lens through which to witness the effects of “interpretation catalysts” on the evolution of international law. In prior work, I identified the concept of interpretation catalysts – discrete triggers for legal interpretation – and their influence on the path that legal evolution takes, including by compelling a decision-making …


Book Review Of The Verdict Of Battle: The Law Of Victory And The Making Of Modern War, Robert D. Sloane Aug 2013

Book Review Of The Verdict Of Battle: The Law Of Victory And The Making Of Modern War, Robert D. Sloane

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This is a brief review of The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War (2012), by James Q. Whitman, a remarkably erudite and original contribution to scholarship on military history and the law of war. It sketches the work’s compelling historical arguments and then critiques its (comparatively modest) polemical dimensions and normative conclusions.