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Andrew Keane Woods

Andrew Keane Woods Professor of Law William M. Rains Fellow

Professor of Law
William M. Rains Fellow

Courses Taught

  • Contracts
  • Law and Technology Lab
  • Privacy Law

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Education

  • AB, in Political Science, magna cum laude, Brown University
  • JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School
  • Ph.D, in Politics and International Studies, Gates Cambridge Scholarship, University of Cambridge

Background

Professor Woods writes about the regulation of technology. His research is principally concerned with the question, “who gets to set the rules for our digital world?” His recent work has examined: foreign affairs laws as they relate to the internet (why do some countries get to set the digital rules for others?); the public/private distinction (why do we cede the regulation of the digital public square to private corporations?); and algorithmic aversion (why are we willing to accept algorithms in some domains but so fearful of them in others?).

His scholarship has been selected for the Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum, and his articles have appeared in: the Yale Law Journal (twice), the Stanford Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review (twice), the Minnesota Law Review, and the Harvard International Law Journal, among others. His work has been cited in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and NPR. Professor Woods is a contributing editor at Lawfare, and has written for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Financial Times, and Slate. Professor Woods has testified before government bodies in the U.S., Canada, India, and the U.K.

Before joining Loyola Law, Professor Woods was the Milton O. Riepe Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. In the Spring of 2023, he was 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. He has also been 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.

Selected Scholarship

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