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Cyberspace is in trouble. Individuals, shadowy criminal organizations, and nation states all currently possess the capacity to harm modern societies through computer attacks. These new and severe cyberthreats put critical information, infrastructure, and lives at risk-and the threat is growing in scale and intensity daily. The conventional response to such cyberthreats is self-reliance; but when self-reliance comes up short, states have turned to law for a solution.

Cybercrime laws proscribe individuals from engaging in unwanted cyberactivities. Other international laws establish what states can (and cannot) do in terms of cyberwarfare. Both sets of rules work by attribution, targeting bad actors - whether criminals or states - to deter cyberthreats. But existing cyberlaw and security are fundamentally insufficient because anonymity is built into the very structure of the Internet, and law cannot regulate the authors of cyberthreats.

Our speaker, Professor Duncan Hollis, proposes and describes a new legal approach to address the problem. There will be time for extensive Q & A and to mingle afterwards.

Duncan B. Hollis is the James E. Beasley Professor of International Law and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. For a detailed biography of the speaker, please click here.

Join us with The Temple University School of Law, Tokyo Campus for an insightful perspective on this timely topic at TUJ (now in its 31st year in Japan), and help kick off the Temple Law School Japan Speaker Series.

This event is co-sponsored by TUJ's Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS)

NOTE 1: This event is ON THE RECORD

NOTE 2: If you cancel after the stated deadline, the full meeting fee will be charged to your account. All guests must be accompanied by an ACCJ member. Sorry, no substitutions or walk-ins.


Legal Services Committee
Tom Dreves and Chris Jacobson, Co-Chairs

Intellectual Property Committee
David Case, Chair
Ken Katayama and Satoshi Arakawa, Vice-Chairs