Mailyn Fidler

Fidler teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, cybersecurity, cybercrime, and national security law. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, Boston University Law Review, University of Illinois Law Review, and Utah Law Review, and others. Fidler has presented at several influential and invitation-only forums for legal scholarship, including the University of Michigan Law School’s Junior Scholars’ Conference and the Junior Faculty Forum for Law and STEM.

Mailyn’s path-breaking work has drawn global attention. At the invitation of the governments of the United Kingdom and France, she served as a delegate to the Pall Mall Process, a multilateral process on regulating the global spyware trade 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 is 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, served as the Technology Law Fellow for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 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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