Mailyn Fidler

Mailyn Fidler

@mailynfidler.bsky.social

law prof // tech & pwr & law

164 Followers 272 Following 15 Posts Joined Sep 2023
1 month ago
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Boston winters are great ... for writing! Here's what I've been working on before the semester starts!

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2 months ago
Foreign Affairs Prosecutions and Cybercrime In his article Contested Criminalization, Professor Steven Koh advances a theory of how the United States sets its global criminal justice policy, in which it u

🎉 Excited to share that my piece "Foreign Affairs Prosecutions and Cybercrime" is now out in the Boston University Law Review!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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3 months ago
Clinic Submits Amicus Brief in SJC Pretext Stop Case

Super important and emerging issue! Delayed enforcement of traffic stops, combined with surveillance technologies, raise the potential for pretextual investigations. See my amicus brief, submitted alongside EPIC and the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic.

clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/2025/11/19/c...

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4 months ago

New from me in Lawfare!

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5 months ago
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New version of Cybersecurity Mission Creep uploaded to SSRN. Thanks to those at the Junior Faculty Forum for Law & STEM and at IU's CACR talk series who have given feedback recently!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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6 months ago
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A New Chapter in Internet Fragmentation

New blog post with Internet Society: I argue Internet fragmentation is taking an "outward" turn, no longer just used for domestic or authoritarian purposes but for extending power across borders.

Short piece: pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/a-new-c...
Long piece: www.sciencespo.fr/public/chair...

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9 months ago
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[RESEARCH PAPER] Internet Fragmentation’s Outward Turn, by Mailyn Fidler Internet Fragmentation’s Outward Turn  This article aims to demonstrate that Internet fragmentation has turned outward. Internet fragmentation is often […]

📢 New paper alert! Internet Fragmentation's Outward Turn, with Sciences Po. It argues that Internet fragmentation has taken a more aggressive dimension in international politics.

Will be revising and expanding into a law review article, so comments welcome!

www.sciencespo.fr/public/chair...

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10 months ago
Fragmentation of International Cybercrime Law Cybercrime is global. But legal approaches to combating cybercrime have been fragmented. The first such multilateral legal mechanism, the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, was launched in 2001 and po...


📢 Publication day! This article is the first comprehensive analysis of all regional cybercrime conventions since 2001. The new UN Cybercrime Convention can't be understood without this history. #newlawrevarticles #cybercrime dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2025/...

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10 months ago
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Junior Scholars Conference | University of Michigan Law School

Excited to head to the Michigan Junior Scholars Conference today to present my forthcoming article, Cybersecurity Mission Creep!

michigan.law.umich.edu/junior-schol...

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11 months ago
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As some lawyers make a mockery of their oath, the rest will fight for the rule of law • New Hampshire Bulletin Our law school prides itself on graduating “practice ready” attorneys, poised to zealously and ethically represent their clients. But in the first few months of this administration, the practice of la...

Joined two of my colleagues to let our students know we will still abide by and defend the rule of law.
newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/04/04/a...

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11 months ago

Proud to join my 363 colleagues.

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11 months ago
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Excited to share that I will spend next year as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. I'll miss my current students but excited to push my research and teaching to the next level. I'll teach Criminal Procedure and these two fun classes. Reading or speaker suggestions are welcome!

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11 months ago

Come join us at this month's workshop!

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11 months ago
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Excited to share my new paper, Cybersecurity Mission Creep, is forthcoming in the Illinois Law Review. It argues we're letting "cybersecurity" do too much of the hard work of governance for us. Comments welcome. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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1 year ago
Fragmentation of International Cybercrime Law Cybercrime is global. But legal approaches to combating cybercrime have been fragmented. The first such multilateral legal mechanism, the Budapest Convention on

Hello Internet friends. It's been a while! Here's my forthcoming piece, Fragmentation of International Cybercrime Law. It reviews each regional conventions and argues they pursue a convergent goal, protecting sovereignty. First of a series, which will also look at the new UN Cybercrime Treaty!

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