Segal on China, International Law, and Cyber
Anyone following these issues closely or interested in Harold Koh's address last month on international law and cyberattacks should read Adam Segal's commentary on China's view of the issues. Adam discusses how China's concern about information flows and their politically destabilizing effects pushes it in a different international legal direction than the United States, but he also speculates that China may soften on some points of lega
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Anyone following these issues closely or interested in Harold Koh's address last month on international law and cyberattacks should read Adam Segal's commentary on China's view of the issues. Adam discusses how China's concern about information flows and their politically destabilizing effects pushes it in a different international legal direction than the United States, but he also speculates that China may soften on some points of legal disagreement.
Matthew Waxman is a law professor at Columbia Law School, where he chairs the National Security Law Program. He also previously co-chaired the Cybersecurity Center at Columbia University's Data Science Institute, and he is Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served in senior policy positions at the State Department, Defense Department, and National Security Council. After graduating from Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter.
