Ido Kilovaty

Ido Kilovaty is a Research Scholar in Law, a Cyber Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges, and a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Starting July 2018, he will be joining the faculty at the University of Tulsa, College of Law, as the Frederic Dorwart Endowed Assistant Professor of Law. His current research is at the intersection of technology, law, and society, with a focus on cybersecurity. His specific areas of research include cybersecurity law, privacy law, national security law, and international law. His article on ethical hacking of Internet-of-Things devices – “Freedom to Hack” is forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal (2019). His scholarship previously appeared in the Harvard National Security Journal, Duke Law & Technology Review, Columbia Science & Technology Law Review, and the Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review. Ido’s work also appeared on Lawfare, Just Security, WIRED, and TechCrunch. At Yale Law School, Ido is running and developing a cross-disciplinary project on cyber conflict, which brings together lawyers, policymakers, and technology experts to engage in a constructive discourse on the current state of affairs on cybersecurity law. The project is a collaboration between Yale Law School and Yale University’s Department of Computer Science. The aim of the project is to bridge the gaps between the legal and technical aspects of cybersecurity. Ido holds an LL.B. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and an S.J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.