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Overview

  • Mailyn Fidler is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. Fidler is a scholar of cybersecurity and cybercrime law. She is an expert on the Fourth Amendment and changing technology as well as domestic and international regulatory approaches to cybersecurity and cybercrime. Her work also analyzes ways that criminalization intersects with the regulation of online speech.

    Fidler received her B.A. with Honors in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University and her MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Marshall Scholar. After completing a fellowship at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, she received her JD from Yale Law School. After law school, she served as the Technology and First Amendment Fellow with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She also clerked for The Honorable Robert Bacharach on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. She previously taught at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2024 Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market 2024
    2023 Warranted Exclusion: A Case for a Fourth Amendment Built on the Right to ExcludeSouthern Methodist University Law Review.  76:315-315. 2023
    2021 The New Editors: Refining First Amendment Protections for Internet PlatformsNotre Dame J. on Emerging Tech..  2:241-241. 2021
    2020 Local Police Surveillance and the Administrative Fourth AmendmentSanta Clara High Technology Law Journal.  36:481-481. 2020
    2020 First Amendment Sentence Mitigation: Beyond a Public Accountability Defense for WhistleblowersHarvard National Security Journal.  11:214-214. 2020
    2015 Regulating the Zero-Day Vulnerability Trade: A Preliminary AnalysisJ.L. & Pol'y for Info. Soc'y.  11:405-405. 2015

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2024 Facial Recognition Technology in the United States 2024
    2024 African Data Protection Laws: Politics, But as Usual 2024
    2023 Infrastructure, Law, and Cyber Instability: An African Case Study 2023

    Teaching Activities

  • Crim Proced I: Investigation Taught course
  • Criminal Law Taught course
  • Independent Study Taught course
  • Law Journal Staff Taught course
  • Crim Procedure: Investigation Taught course 2024
  • CyberCrime Taught course 2024
  • Education And Training

  • J.D., Yale Law School
  • M.Phil. International Relations, Oxford Univ-Eng
  • Full Name

  • Mailyn Fidler