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LS554A: INTERNATIONAL CYBERSECURITY LAW (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:09


Course Overview

The course addresses international legal issues raised by the increasing need to secure information and communication technology. It explores the modalities of international cyberattacks; discusses data protection in the EU and UK; questions the scope of the obligation of States to secure cyberspace; studies the role of private companies in reacting to harmful online content and international cyberattacks; analyses how cyberoperations can be attributed to States; examines what cyberoperations perpetrated by States violate international law and how victim States could react to those operations; and describes the governance in international cybersecurity.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Irene Couzigou

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • One of Master Of Laws In Peace, Security And International Law (Sept Start) or Master of Laws (Criminal Justice) or Master of Laws (General Law) or Master of Laws in Human Rights and Criminal Justice or Master of Laws (Criminal Justice and Human Rights) or Master of Laws (International Law) or Master of Laws in Public International Law or Llm Intern'L Intellectual Property & Info' Law W/ Dissertation (Sept) or Llm In Intellectual Property Law With Professional Skills (Sept Start) or Master Of Laws In Intellectual Property Law (September Start)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The course addresses international legal issues raised by the increasing need to secure information and communication technology. It explores the modalities of international cyberattacks; discusses data protection in the EU and UK; questions the scope of the obligation of States to secure cyberspace; studies the role of private companies in reacting to harmful online content and international cyberattacks; analyses how cyberoperations can be attributed to States; examines what cyberoperations perpetrated by States violate international law and how victim States could react to those operations; and describes the governance in international cybersecurity.


Contact Teaching Time

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Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

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Exam

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Case Study

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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

Resit Failed Elements in same format if due to extenuating circumstances

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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionAnalyseAn ability to access, and use for analysis, relevant texts and electronic databases
ConceptualUnderstandAn enhanced knowledge of international cybersecurity law
FactualEvaluateAn ability to critically analyse whether current international rules related to security can be applied to cyberspace and whether they should be adapted to this new area of activities
ProceduralCreateAn ability to organise and communicate ideas clearly and cogently, orally and in writing

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