Faculty & Adjuncts

Ido Kilovaty is the Frederic Dorwart Endowed Assistant Professor of Law. He comes to the College of Law after two years as a Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. At Yale, he was a Cyber Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges, and a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project, where he remains an affiliated fellow. Professor Kilovaty is also a 2018-19 Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America. He specializes in the intersection of technology, law, and society, with a focus on cybersecurity – both domestic and international. His specific areas of research include cybersecurity law, internet governance, and domestic and global technology regulation. His recently authored “Freedom to Hack” which proposes a solution of ethical hacking for the improvement of smart-device security is forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal and “Legally Cognizable Manipulation” which explores the relationship between novel breach-related harms and data-breach law is forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. His work has also appeared in the Harvard National Security Journal, Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, Duke Law & Technology Review, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, and more. Professor Kilovaty’s op-eds and essays appeared at Harvard Law Review Blog, Lawfare, Just Security, WIRED, and TechCrunch.

International Law
Cybersecurity Law & Policy
Technology Law

International Law
Cybersecurity Law & Policy
Technology Law

Law Reviews

• Ido Kilovaty, Privatized Cybersecurity Law, UC Irvine Law Review (2020).

• Ido Kilovaty, An Extraterritorial Human Right to Cybersecurity, Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law (2020).

• Ido Kilovaty, Legally Cognizable Manipulation, Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2019).

• Ido Kilovaty, The Elephant in the Room: Coercion, 113 American Journal of International Law Unbound (2019).

• Ido Kilovaty, Freedom to Hack, Ohio State Law Journal (2019).

• Ido Kilovaty, Doxfare – Politically Motivated Leaks and the Future of the Norm on Non – Intervention in the Era of Weaponized Information, 9 Harv. Nat’l. Sec. J. 146 (2018).

• ICRC, NATO, and the U.S. – Direct Participation in “Hacktivities” – Targeting Private Contractors in Cyberspce Under the Law of Armed Conflict, 15 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 1 (2016).

• Virtual Violence – Disruptive Cyberspace Operations as “Attacks” under International Humanitarian Law, 22 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 113 (2016).

• World Wide Web of Exploitations: The Case of Peacetime Cyber Espionage Operations Under International Law: Towards a Contextual Approach, 18 Columb. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 42 (2017).

• Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Green Light for Humanitarian Intervention?, 6 Creighton Int’l & Comp. L. J. 1 (2015).

• Rethinking the Prohibition on the Use of Force in the Light of Economic Cyber Warfare:
  Towards a Broader Scope of Article
  2(4) of the UN Charter, 4 J. L. & Cyber War. 210( 2015).

• Cyber Warfare and the Jus ad Bellum Challenges: Evaluation in Light of the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, 5 Am. U. Nat’l. Sec. Brief 91 (2014).

• Ido Kilovaty, Legally Cognizable Manipulation, Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

Blog Posts

• Ido Kilovaty, Are Tech Companies Becoming the Primary Legislators in International Cyberspace? (2019).

Dissertation Projects

• Ido Kilovaty, Conflict in Cyberspace and International Law.

Conference Proceedings

• Yale Cyber Leadership Forum: Bridging the Divide: The Law, Technology, and Business of Cyber Security – Conference Report, (July 31, 2018, co-editor with Oona Hathaway and Ted Wittenstein)

Other

• Data Breach Through Social Engineering,, Har. L. Rev. Blog (March 21, 2018).

• The Cambridge Analytica Debacle is Not a Facebook “Data Breach.” Maybe It Should Be, TechCrunch (March 17, 2018).

• If it talks like a government and acts like a government, it must be a tech giant, TechCrunch, March 31, 2017.

• Repealing Net Neutrality, National Security, and the Road to a Dictatorial Internet, Harv. L. Rev. Blog (December 22, 2017).

• The Equifax Aftermath – We Need More Hacking, Lawfare (October 6, 2017).

• The World is on the Verge of a Cyber War, The Jerusalem Post (January 7, 2017).

• Violence in Cyberspace: Are Disruptive Cyberspace Operations Legal under International Humanitarian Law, Just Security, March 3, 2017.

• Want to Keep Hackers Out of Gadgets? Try International Law, WIRED.com (February 7, 2017).

• First of its Kind U.S. Indictment of Iranian Hackers – the Future of Cyber Accountability, University of Haifa Cyber Forum Blog (March 15, 2016).

• Legal Blackout – Thoughts on Due-Diligence in Cyberspace and the Legality of Cyber-Espionage in the Aftermath of the Ukrainian Power Outage Cyber-Attack, University of Haifa Cyber Forum Blog (December 4, 2016).

• The Democratic National Committee Hack: Information as Interference, Just Security (August 1, 2016).

• The Double-Edged Sword of Vehicle Software Tinkering under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Exemption, University of Haifa Cyber Forum Blog (December 4, 2016).

• Thoughts on Apple’s Refusal to Unlock San Bernardino Gunman’s iPhone, University of Haifa Cyber Forum Blog (February 20, 2016)

• Towards a Cyber-Security Treaty (with Itamar Mann, August 3, 2016).

• Will “Cyber Bonds” Mitigate Transnational Cyberspace Threats, Just Security (June 15, 2016).

• Anonymous to Launch “Massive Cyber Attacks” Against ISIS in the Aftermath of the Paris Terrorist Attacks, University of Haifa Cyber Forum Blog (November 18, 2015).

• The Cyber-Attack on U.S. Office of Personnel Management – What are the Challenges?, University of Haifa Cyber Forum Blog (July 9, 2015).

• “Balkanization” of the Internet as a Response to Cybersecurity Threats – a Viable Solution or a Serious Obstacle for the Future of the Net, University of Haifa Cyber Forum Blog (May 11, 2015).

• “Sophisticated Cyberattack” against the Pentagon Demonstrates the Biggest Gaps in Inter-State Cyberspace Activities Regulation, University of Haifa Cyber Forum Blog (August 13, 2015).

• War: The Next Generation, Ha’Aretz (December 22, 2014).

• LGBTI Asylum Seekers May Still Face Hardships in the EU, Despite Recent ECJ Decision Ruling in Favor of Gay Asylum Seekers, Berkeley Journal of International Law Online, Berkeley Travaux (December 16, 2013).

• Cybersecurity Law and Policy
• Technology Law
• International Law

• New America
• American Society of International Law