Derek Bambauer
Irving Cypen Professor of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Derek Bambauer is the Irving Cypen Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE).
His research focuses on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, internet censorship, and intellectual property, and he teaches internet law, cybersecurity, and intellectual property.
Before joining the University of Florida, Bambauer served as a professor of law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. He previously taught at Brooklyn Law School and Wayne State University Law School and has been a visiting professor at Swinburne Law School in Australia.
Earlier in his career, he was a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where he worked with the OpenNet Initiative studying internet censorship worldwide. Before entering academia, he worked as a principal systems engineer at Lotus Development Corp. and has maintained an active pro bono practice representing innovators, entrepreneurs, and security researchers.
He co-authored the book “Cybersecurity: An Interdisciplinary Problem.”
Bambauer graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s from Harvard College and earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
