Author: Abygaelle Loubeau (LAW'23)

An Inside Perspective: iLIT Fellow Abby Loubeau Shares Her Experience with the Oxford Process

In the last decade, states have come together to address the lack of rules in cyberspace via multilateral meetings such as the Open-Ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of Information Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (OEWG). As a Fellow at Temple Law’s Institute for Law, Innovation & Technology (iLIT) I, along with the iLIT team, have been tracking the evolving landscape of cyberspace rule formation through iLIT’s National Statements project. National statements are a state’s published views as to which laws of international law apply to cyberspace. Publication of national statements is a recent phenomenon. In fact, until about ten years ago there was no consensus as to the application of international law to cyberspace and states did not share their positions on the topic. Now, as more nations continue to publish their statements, areas of consensus, disagreement, and silence are emerging, and iLIT is analyzing these trends. iLIT’s National Statements project identifies and analyzes the various state positions regarding cyberspace through a lens of equity, inequality, and diversity.  Technology and …