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.