Professor Woods’s research focuses on the global regulation of technology. His scholarship has appeared in: the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford 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 of Lawfare, and has written for the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Atlantic, the Financial Times, and Slate. Professor Woods has testified before Congress, and his work has been cited by regulatory bodies around the world.
In the Spring of 2023, Professor Woods was a visiting scholar 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. Before that, he was 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.
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