Course overview
This course covers the law and policy applicable to cyber security across a broad range of scenarios, including the regulation of cyber assets as critical infrastructure, the criminal law response to organised cybercrime, and the legal implications of cyberspace as a warfighting domain. Course participants will gain an understanding of data privacy rights and obligations at common law and under statute; the national and international regulation of cyber security, including the application of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018; the law applicable to cyber security implementation and responses to cyber incidents; corporate governance obligations, including director's duties; the national and international criminal law framework applicable to cybercrimes; the investigation of cybercrimes and the role of digital forensics; and the legal regulation of cyber conflict, including the application of the Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) and Law on the Use of Force to cyber operations.
Course learning outcomes
- Undertake legal research at a high level of complexity in relation to issues of cyber security and cyber conflict.
- Effectively structure and articulate written legal arguments.
- Deploy advanced skills in statutory interpretation, including in particular in relation to the Privacy Act, the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act and the Commonwealth Criminal Code, to resolve complex legal problems arising in relation to cyber security and cyber conflict law.
- Analyse a complex factual scenario and identify the relevant legal issues arising in relation to issues of cyber security and cyber conflict.
- Articulate complex legal arguments orally.
- Identify and evaluate relevant ethical and moral issues in legal situations arising in relation to cyber security and cyber conflict.