Posted by The Law School
18 April 2025It has just been announced that the Cyber Law Toolkit project will receive this year’s Jus Gentium Award of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). The Cyber Law Toolkit has been created by experts at the University of Exeter Law School with support from partners around the world.
The award recognizes, on an annual basis, the best non-commercial online public databases, data sets, or other resources offering coverage of international and non-U.S. laws that are accessible for public use. The Toolkit will join an illustrious list of previous prize recipients including the ICRCâs Customary IHL Database, the United Nations Digital Library, and the ICC Legal Tools Database.
Alongside the University of Exeter, the project is supported by the five partner institutions: the Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NĂKIB), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), the U.S. Naval War College, United States, and Wuhan University, China.
I am proud to see the collective effort behind the Toolkit acknowledged by one of the worldâs leading international law societies. This award encourages us to sharpen and expand the Toolkitâs role as a trusted guide to how international law governs cyber operations.
Professor Kubo MaÄĂĄk, Director of the Cyber Toolkit Project
The Toolkit may be explored and utilized in a number of different ways. At its core, it presently consists of 32 hypothetical scenarios. Each scenario contains a description of cyber incidents inspired by real-world examples, accompanied by detailed legal analysis. The aim of the analysis is to examine the applicability of international law to the scenarios and the issues they raise.
If you’d like to read more about the Cyber Law Toolkit follow this link.