Patricia Vargas-Leon

Patricia A. Vargas León is a Cybersecurity Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ostrom Workshop in Indiana University, a visiting scholar in the Internet Governance Program at the Catholic University of Uruguay, and a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Her research—at the intersection of law, policy, and technology—focuses on Internet governance, cybersecurity, international law and the law of the sea. She is particularly interested in government control over Internet infrastructure, network neutrality, and the parallels between the law of the sea and cyberspace regulation. Her doctoral dissertation examines Internet blackouts in various political regimes.

Before transitioning into academia, Patricia practiced as an attorney in the private sector for nearly a decade. She has two decades of experience in international law, including work as a consultant for the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS), and has served as a Google Policy Fellow.

Patricia holds a Ph.D., M.S., and M.Phil. in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, and a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.