Tal's research aims at exploring the role of new duty holders in the international plane - and particularly big-tech companies.
While International law is, by and large, a State-centric enterprise, we have witnessed in recent years that States growingly rely on big-tech companies in relation to cyberspace, including in connection to national critical infrastructures.
tates also rely on the private sector also in development of new technologies, with dual-use applications, and in their cyber-defense operations.
The role of Microsoft in Ukraine is a case in point.
Against this backdrop, Tal seeks to understand if the time has come to increase the role of tech-companies in international discussion concerning the application of law to cyberspace
and in the creation and maintenance of mechanisms that cope with the challenges and risks of the digital age.
