Election Interference

Jens David Ohlin is Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School. His work stands at the intersection of three related fields: criminal law and procedure, international law, and the laws of war. Trained as both a lawyer and a philosopher, Professor Ohlin has tackled diverse research questions that include the philosophical foundations of international law, collective criminal action, and the role of new technologies in war. He is the author of leading textbooks in international law and criminal law.

• Introduction; 1. What is election interference?; 2. Election interference is not cyberwar; 3. Limits of the sovereignty framework; 4. The promise of self-determination; 5. Foreign electioneering and transparency; 6. Free speech and elections; 7. The value of criminal prosecutions; 8. Soliciting foreign interference; Conclusion.

'Jens David Ohlin has written a terrific, highly policy-relevant book about the extraordinary harm of election interference. Against the background of Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, Ohlin skillfully unpacks the logic of foreign electioneering, explicating in fascinating detail how, and when, foreign electioneering matters, and why it is deserving of international legal reprobation. An essential primer on a pernicious form of lawfare, Election Interference is a pioneering book.' Jens Meierhenrich, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and the author of Lawfare: A Genealogy