Speaker: Professor Marko Milanovic

In this talk, Professor Milanovic will discuss the formal and informal processes through which international law is made or adapted to deal with the challenges presented by new cyber technologies. The talk will explain the interaction between processes driven primarily by states, and those driven by academics or other non-state actors, including the Tallinn Manual. Examples that will be discussed include rules on sovereignty, non-intervention, international criminal law and human rights.

About the speaker:

Marko Milanovic is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Reading School of Law, and Director of the Global Law at Reading (GLAR) research group. He is co-general editor of the ongoing Tallinn Manual 3.0 project on the application of international law in cyberspace and Senior Fellow, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Since 2024, he has been serving as the Special Adviser on Cyber-Enabled Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He is also co-editor of EJIL: Talk!, the blog of the European Journal of International Law, as well as a member of the EJIL’s Editorial Board. Professor Milanovic was formerly Professor of Public International Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham School of Law, and served as Vice-President and member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law. Professor Milanovic held visiting professorships at Michigan Law School, Columbia Law School, Deakin Law School, the University of Bologna, the University of the Philippines College of Law, Union University Belgrade Faculty of Law, and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

Note: This event is open to the public and free to attend

Chair: Dr Maria Varaki

Dr Maria Varaki is Lecturer in International Law in the War Studies Department, King's College London. Before moving to London she held research positions with the Erik Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights in Helsinki and the Law Faculty of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was also an Assistant Professor in International Law at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. She holds a PhD in International Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway, Ireland and two LLM degrees in International and Comparative Law, from Tulane University and from New York University, School of Law. Currently she is a Research Associate on the Three Generations of Digital Human Rights, ERC project, 2023-2028, Hebrew University, Faculty of Law.