Josephine Wolff

Visiting Professor of Law
(spring term)
Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
A.B., Princeton University, 2010

Courses Taught
  • Cybersecurity Policy and Law
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Josephine Wolff is a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her research interests include liability for cybersecurity incidents, international Internet governance, cyber-insurance, cybersecurity workforce development, and the economics of information security. Her first book, You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches, was published by MIT Press in 2018. Her second book, Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks, was published by MIT Press in 2022. Her writing on cybersecurity has also appeared in SlateThe New York TimesThe Washington PostThe Atlantic, and Wired. Prior to joining Fletcher, she was an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.