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The UN Convention against Cybercrime adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2024 is the result of an enduring east-west rivalry, from the early debate from November 2019 on whether a new UN convention was needed, to the entire process up to August 2024. The seminar will first trace the controversies surrounding the UN Convention, and then look into the text of the Convention to see how compromises were made on contentious issues. It will also discuss the implications of the Convention for future international cooperation on combating cybercrime and, more broadly, for international rule-making in cyberspace.'
Zhixiong HUANG is Hongyi Chair Professor and Vice Dean of the Law School as well as Director of the Institute for Cyber Governance, Wuhan University, China. Professor Huang specializes in public international law, and his main area of academic interest is international law and governance of cyberspace. He served (or serves), among others, as member of the International Group of Experts of the Tallinn 2.0 Project on International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations, and Special Rapporteur of the Working Group on International Law in Cyberspace, Asian African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO). Professor Huang was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard Law School during the academic year 2010-2011, and he also did visiting research at Utrecht University (the Netherlands, 2003), the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law (Germany, 2003/2016), Warsaw University (Poland, 2010) and the University of Exeter (UK, 2016).
- Speaker
- Professor Zhixiong Huang
- Hosted by
- Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law
- Venue
- Hybrid Event (On Campus Venue - C11)
- Contact
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If you would like to join the online event please contact Prof Irene Couzigou at irene.couzigou@abdn.ac.uk