Focus and Scope

The expansion of digital technologies has created new legal challenges in cybersecurity, data protection, online transactions, artificial intelligence, digital evidence, cybercrime, and cross-border digital activities. As individuals, organizations, and governments increasingly depend on networked systems, legal frameworks must adapt to address emerging risks such as cyber attacks, online fraud, harmful digital content, algorithmic bias, privacy violations, and jurisdictional complexity.

Journal of Cyber Law provides a scholarly forum for research at the intersection of law, cybersecurity, digital technology, data governance, and online society. The journal welcomes studies that examine legal, regulatory, ethical, technical, and policy dimensions of cyberspace, with particular attention to how law can respond to the risks and opportunities created by digital transformation.

The journal encourages interdisciplinary research that connects legal studies with cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, criminology, public policy, digital forensics, artificial intelligence, and data science. Submissions may include doctrinal legal analysis, empirical research, computational studies, comparative legal studies, policy analysis, case-based studies, and applied research that supports stronger legal and regulatory responses to cyber issues.

The journal is a forum for the exchange of research findings, analysis, information, and knowledge in areas that include, but are not limited to:

  • Cyber Law and Digital Regulation – Research on legal frameworks, regulatory models, compliance systems, and governance approaches for digital environments, cybersecurity, and online activities.
  • Cybersecurity Law and Risk Management – Studies on cybersecurity obligations, incident response, cyber risk assessment, organizational liability, security standards, and legal approaches to cyber resilience.
  • Cybercrime, Digital Evidence, and Law Enforcement – Research on cybercrime detection, digital evidence, online fraud, phishing, malicious URLs, threatening content, cyberbullying, and legal mechanisms for investigation and enforcement.
  • Data Protection, Privacy, and Information Governance – Studies on privacy law, personal data protection, data governance, consent, surveillance, information security, and responsible data use.
  • Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Governance, and Legal Accountability – Research on the legal implications of AI systems, algorithmic bias, automated decision-making, explainability, accountability, and the governance of data-driven technologies.
  • Online Transactions, E-Commerce, and Digital Fraud – Studies on digital transaction integrity, electronic commerce, online payment fraud, financial cyber risks, platform responsibility, and consumer protection in digital markets.
  • Online Harm, Digital Rights, and Platform Responsibility – Research on harmful online content, misinformation, harassment, cyberbullying, hate speech, content moderation, digital rights, and platform governance.
  • Cross-Border Cyber Issues and Jurisdiction – Studies on international cyber law, cross-border data flows, remote digital work, cyber conflict, jurisdictional disputes, and comparative regulatory approaches.