International Law and Step-Zero: Going Beyond Cyberwar

Kristen Eichensehr, Cyber War & International Law Step Zero, 50 Tex. Int’l L.J. 355 (2015), available at SSRN.

Herbert Lin

Kristen Eichensehr recently published a piece entitled Cyberwar & International Law Step Zero that describes an unfolding of events that is by now familiar to international lawyers contemplating the emergence of new military technologies. First, a new military technology X (where X has been drones, cyber weapons, nuclear weapons, lethal autonomous weapons) appears. Nations then ask the “step-zero” question — “does […]