Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare
Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare · 2012
Identifier: ISSN 2578-6229 (online), 2578-6245 (print)
Access and status
Cost
Partly free
Part of it is free and part is not. The entry says which part; read that before you plan around it.
Status
Current
Current as at the verification date below. Standards and tools both move — confirm at source before you rely on it.
What it is
A peer-reviewed law journal founded in 2012 covering the law of cyber conflict — attribution and evidence, sovereignty, national security policy, autonomous and AI-enabled systems, and critical infrastructure defence. It is indexed in HeinOnline's Law Journal Library and in JSTOR, and is actively publishing through 2026.
Who it is for, and when
Read it when a matter reaches beyond ordinary criminal or civil digital evidence into state-actor attribution, national security, or the legal status of an offensive cyber operation. The attribution and evidentiary-standard pieces are the ones that transfer to expert work, because they take seriously how much weight an attribution claim can bear. Bluebook citations are exported from every article page, which is convenient for brief writing.
What it does not cover
It publishes no technical forensics research — no acquisition, examination or tool work at all. Access is mixed: abstracts and citation metadata are free on the site and a subset of pieces appears in full, but the complete text of bound-issue articles comes through HeinOnline or JSTOR.
Go to the source
Open at jlcw.org (opens in a new tab)https://www.jlcw.org/
Details
- Type
- Journal
- Written for
- Lawyers and courtsAdvancedLawyers and courts, Advanced
- Publisher
- Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare
- Year
- 2012
- Identifier
- ISSN 2578-6229 (online), 2578-6245 (print)
- Topics
- research-publishing, legal-admissibility, peer-review
- Checked at source
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