Marta Stroppa

Bio

Marta Stroppa is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Law at the DIRPOLIS Institute of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, where she is currently working on a PRIN-PNRR project on the protection of cultural heritage in situations of armed conflict and emergency. She regularly lectures on international law on the use of force, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law.

Marta has completed her PhD in Human Rights and Global Politics at the Scuola in 2024, with a thesis on "Autonomous cyber capabilities in the use of force and conduct of hostilities: A jus ad bellum and jus in bello perspective". In 2022/2023, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia, and at the University of Westminster in London, United Kingdom.

Marta is also Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Center of the University of Milan and a member of the Editorial Committee of the Italian Review of International and Comparative Law. Previously, she has worked in the Legal Affairs Office of the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations in New York, USA, and in the Global Maritime Crime Programme of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Bangkok, Thailand.

She holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of Milan and an LLM in International and European Law from Tilburg University.

Pubblicazioni

Marta Stroppa (forthcoming), "The use of autonomous cyber capabilities in armed conflict: legal appraisal from a targeting law perspective", in B. Boutin, T. Woodcock and S. Soltanzadeh (Eds.), "Decision at the Edge: Interdisciplinary Dilemmas in Military Artificial Intelligence", The Hague: Asser Press.

Marta Stroppa (2023), “Autonomous cyber capabilities and unilateral measures of self-help against malicious cyber operations”, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Tallinn: NATO CCD COE Publications Office, available at: https://ccdcoe.org/library/publications/autonomous-cyber-capabilities-and-unilateral-measures-of-self-help-against-malicious-cyber-operations/

Marta Stroppa (2023), “The use of autonomous weapons systems in armed conflict: legal and ethical implications”, in N. Rébé (Ed.), “Artificial Intelligence: Crime, War, and Justice”, London: Ethics Press.

Francesca Romana Partipilo and Marta Stroppa (2023), “Humanitarian organizations under cyber-attack: emerging threats and humanitarian actors’ responsibilities under international human rights law”, in François Delerue, Arun Sukumar, and Dennis Broeders (Eds.), “Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace: Global Narratives and Practice”, EU Cyber Directive, Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union.

Marta Stroppa (2023), “Legal and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Cyber Capabilities: A Call for Retaining Human Control in Cyberspace”, in Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 25, no. 7, Special Issue: Responsible AI in Military Application.

Marta Stroppa (2022), “Il caso Breivik a dieci anni dalla strage di Oslo e Utøya”, in Rivista di Diritti Comparati, Vol. 2, pp. 604-638.