Sarah Zarmsky's Digital Harm and International Criminal Law is a landmark study that masterfully demonstrates why and how international criminal justice must evolve to confront harms inflicted through digital technologies. With its innovative typology, rigorous doctrinal analysis, and compelling case studies-from ISIS execution videos to mass surveillance in Xinjiang-this timely book provides an indispensable roadmap for scholars and practitioners seeking to ensure that ICL remains relevant and effective in the digital age.

Eliot Higgins, Bellingcat Productions BV

A novel and important book that unlocks our understanding of “digital harm” as international crimes. It constructs and defines the concept of digital crimes in the digital age underscoring the necessity of incorporating such crimes within the corpus of the international criminal law. From the digital crimes of ISIS to the mass surveillance of governments this book is essential reading for advancing international criminal accountability in the age of technology.
This book provides an indispensable contribution to identifying the nexus between crime and technology. It boldly confronts the multilayered harms of digital crime for victims and society alike. Zarmsky provides the essential roadmap for international criminalization of digital crimes a much-needed contribution to international scholarship and practice. Brava.

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC, Queen's University of Belfast

In this book, Sarah Zarmsky ably explains why digital harms need to be criminalized at the international level, and how this can and should be done. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the application of international criminal law to digital technologies.

Professor Marko Milanovic, University of Reading

In Digital Harm and International Criminal Law, Sarah Zarmsky vaults international criminal law into the 21st century. With precision and originality, she confronts the profound challenges posed by digital harms, weaving together cutting-edge doctrinal, theoretical, and empirical insights. The result is a powerful and persuasive call to rethink how existing legal frameworks must evolve to meet emerging forms of harm. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike, this book is destined to help shape the future of international criminal law in the digital age.

Professor Alexa Koenig, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley