Andrew Keane Woods

Professor Woods’s teaching and research interests include cybersecurity, the regulation of technology, and international law.  His scholarship has been selected for the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, and his articles have appeared in: the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Harvard International Law Journal, the Virginia Journal of International Law, and the Chicago Journal of International Law.  His work has been cited in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and NPR.  Professor Woods is a contributing editor of the Lawfare blog, and has written for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times, and Slate.

Professor Woods is on sabbatical for the 2022-2023 year.  In the Spring of 2023, he will be visiting at the University of Copenhagen on a Fulbright Schuman Innovation Award.  In Spring 2017, Professor Woods was a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he taught a class on law and policy in the technology sector. Before that, he was an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society) and a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School.  He holds an A.B. from Brown University, magna cum laude, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, and a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar.

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Curriculum Vitae

SSRN Published Papers

Representative Publications

• Litigating Data Sovereignty, 128 Yale L.J. 328 (2018).
• Discounting Rights, 50 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 509 (2018).
• The Transparency Tax, 71 Vand. L. Rev. 1 (2017).
• Against Data Exceptionalism, 68 Stan. L. Rev. 729 (2016).
• Complete List of Publications

Education

• Ph.D. University of Cambridge
  2012
• J.D. Harvard Law School
  2007
  Graduated cum laude
• A.B. Brown University
  2002
  Graduated magna cum laude

Work Experience

• Professor of Law
  James E. Rogers College of Law
  2019 - present
• Associate Professor of Law
  James E. Rogers College of Law
  2018 - 2019
• Assistant Professor of Law
  University of Kentucky College of Law
  2014 - 2018
• Visiting Professor of Law
  University of Texas School of Law
  Spring 2017
• Postdoctoral Fellow
  Stanford University Department of Political Science
  2013 - 2014
• Postdoctoral Cybersecurity Fellow
  Stanford Law School & the Center for International Security and Cooperation
  2012 - 2014
• Climenko Fellow & Lecturer on Law
  Harvard Law School
  2010 - 2012
• Gates Scholar
  University of Cambridge
  2008 - 2011
• Rita E. Hauser Fellow & Lecturer on Law
  Harvard Law School
  2007 - 2009