The Commonwealth Secretariat is calling for papers for the second volume of the Commonwealth Cyber Journal (CCJ), for a special issue focusing on AI systems and cybercrime.
Please note: as the submission deadline of 1 September 2023 has now passed, no further abstracts are being considered for this issue. Please check back for details of future issues of the journal, or do feel free to contact us using the details given, on the journal's homepage.
The CCJ, an annual journal published by the Commonwealth Secretariat, features peer-reviewed, policy-influencing articles and commentary by academics, policymakers, practitioners and experts on the benefits, challenges and risks of digital technologies. These include generative artificial intelligence (GAI) systems and their use in all spheres of life, including in legal practice, judicial decision making, policing, intelligence gathering and military purposes. In addition to cybersecurity frameworks, the CCJ also analyses the types, trends, scale and impact of cybercrime both within Commonwealth member countries and globally. Furthermore, it seeks to address the need, challenges and opportunities for building effective anti-cybercrime and GAI legal, policy, institutional and multilateral regulatory frameworks.
For this special issue, we are calling for articles that focus on the following aspects of AI systems and cybercrime.
Artificial Intelligence Systems
- Regulation of AI systems (analysing the need, and the challenges and opportunities, for the regulation of GAI and other emerging digital technologies)
- GAI systems and Commonwealth small countries: challenges and opportunities
- GAI systems and cybercrime (including risks of increased cyber-attacks)
- AI systems and human rights
- AI systems and the integrity of electoral and democratic systems
- AI systems and the future of intellectual property regimes
Cybercrime
- The future of anti-cybercrime multilateral frameworks (analysing the intersection of the Budapest Convention and ongoing efforts to establish a UN anti-cybercrime framework)
- Commonwealth cyber-resilience frameworks: challenges and opportunities
- The future of cyber insurance
- Cybercrime and the digital economy (analysing, inter alia, the intersection between cybercrime and digital assets and currencies)
- Digitalisation of justice systems and cybercrime.
How to submit
Authors interested in publishing in the second volume of the CCJ were invited to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, alongside the authors’ full names, biographies/CVs and contact details, to Dr Nkechi Amobi at [email protected] and [email protected] by 1 September 2023.
On the basis of these abstracts, selected authors will be invited to submit a full article of between 5,000 and 7,000 words. Please see the full timeline below.
Timeline
- Abstract (500 words) due: by 1 September 2023
- Notification of abstract acceptance: by 15 September 2023
- Draft papers due: by 30 November 2023
- Decision: between 12 January and 12 February 2024
- Review and revisions process: between 12 February and 15 March 2024
- Publication: 31 March 2024.
Guideline for accepted authors
Articles approved at the abstract stage must be submitted in Word format in 12pt Trebuchet MS, justified and with 1.5 line spacing (footnotes should be in font 10pt Trebuchet).
- Length of draft paper should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words (footnotes excluded).
- Citations and references should follow the Harvard-style author-date system.
- All draft papers should include a short abstract summarising their content/central argument.
- All draft papers should include a short biography (one or two sentences per author) describing the authors’ current position(s), institutional affiliations and (for the corresponding author) e-mail contact details.
Volume 1, issue 1 of the CCJ is available here.