Mailyn Fidler

Fidler teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, cybersecurity, cybercrime, and national security law. She has authored several cutting-edge law review articles, including “Fragmentation of International Cybercrime Law” in the Utah Law Review and “Cybersecurity Mission Creep” in the University of Illinois Law Review. She recently won the Sciences Po Chair on Digital Governance & Sovereignty’s award for best research paper on Internet fragmentation, with her paper “Internet Fragmentation as Analog Contestation” receiving the award.

Fidler has presented at several influential and invitation-only forums on legal scholarship. This spring she presented at the University of Michigan Law School’s Junior Scholars’ Conference and last fall presented at Yale Law School’s Internet Society Project’s talk series, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Junior Faculty Forum for Law and STEM and Northeastern Law School’s faculty colloquium series. Mailyn’s path-breaking work has drawn global attention. Last fall the governments of the United Kingdom and France invited her to participate in a multilateral/multistakeholder process on regulating spyware held in Paris.

Fidler is a faculty affiliate at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and a faculty associate at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where she was previously an affiliate and resident fellow. Fidler will be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 2025-26. 

Previously, Fidler was a professor at the University of Nebraska College Law, where she has family roots. She clerked for U.S. Appellate Judge Robert Bacharach on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and is a graduate of Yale Law School, Oxford University and Stanford University.

You can contact her at: Mailyn [dot] Fidler [at] law [dot] unh [dot] edu



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