Professor Irene Couzigou recently participated in two academic events on international cybersecurity.
She was invited by the American University Washington College of Law to the third Annual Symposium on Cyber & International Law. Other participants came, among others, from West Point, The Federmann Cyber Security Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Irene participated in a panel on the human rights dimension of information conflicts. She focused her talk on the French legislation against disinformation disseminated before democratic elections and its impact on the right to freedom of expression.
Professor Couzigou was also invited by the University of Greifswald (Germany) to an interdisciplinary workshop that studied the ‘Foundations and Limits for the Criminalization of Preparatory Online Communication’. Participants were criminologists, psychologists, sociologists, lawyers from different European Universities. Irene presented on the criminalization of online preparatory acts of terrorism, e.g., online recruitment of terrorists or online propaganda of terrorism, under international law.