Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the international law applicable to cyber operations

Prepared by the International Groups of Experts at the invitation of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center Of Excellence

Contents: --Introduction. --Part I: General international law and cyberspace: 1. Sovereignty. 2. Due diligence. 3. Jurisdiction. Law of international responsibility: 1. Internationally wrongful acts by a state. 2. State countermeasures and necessity. 3. Obligations of States for internationally. 4.Responsibility of international organisations. 5. Cyber operations not per se regulated by international law. --Part II: Specialised regimes of international law and cyberspace. 6. International human rights law. 7. Diplomatic and consular law. 8. Law of the sea. 9. Air law. 10. Space law. 11. International telecommunication law. --Part III: International peace and security and cyber. 12. Peaceful settlement. 13. Prohibition of intervention. 14. The use of force. 15. Collective security. --Part IV: The law of cyber armed conflict. 16. The law of cyber armed conflict generally. 17. Conduct of hostilities. 18. Certain persons, objects, and activities. 19. Occupation. 20. Neutrality. --Glossary. --Index.

Tallinn Manual 2.0 expands on the highly influential first edition by extending its coverage of the international law governing cyber operations to peacetime legal regimes. The product of a three-year follow-on project by a new group of twenty renowned international law experts, it addresses such topics as sovereignty, state responsibility, human rights, and the law of air, space, and the sea. Tallinn Manual 2.0 identifies 154 'black letter' rules governing cyber operations and provides extensive commentary on each rule. Although Tallinn Manual 2.0 represents the views of the experts in their personal capacity, the project benefitted from the unofficial input of many states and over fifty peer reviewers.