Education

• Indiana University B.A. summa cum laude
• University of Cambridge Masters in International Relations, first honors
• University of Cambridge PhD, Politics and International Studies
• Stanford University JD with academic and pro bono distinction

Biography

Professor Scott J. Shackelford is a Professor of Business Law and Ethics at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. He serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, as well as the Executive Director of the Ostrom Workshop. He is also an Affiliated Scholar at both the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society.

Professor Shackelford has written more than 100 articles, book chapters, essays, and op-eds for diverse publications. Similarly, Professor Shackelford’s research has been covered by an array of outlets, including Politico, NPR, CNN, Forbes, Time, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. He is the author of The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2020), Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age: Toward Cyber Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is also the lead editor of the first volume dedicated to cyber peace entitled Cyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Both Professor Shackelford’s academic work and teaching have been recognized with numerous awards, including a Harvard University Research Fellowship, a Stanford University Hoover Institution National Fellowship, a Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Distinguished Fellowship, the 2014 Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the 2015 Elinor Ostrom Award, and the 2022 Poets & Quants Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors Award.

In the Media

• Quoted in "IU builds on leadership in cybersecurity to protect critical space infrastructure," IU News (2/14/2025)
• Quoted in "Experts say those behind social media threats against schools are getting harder to track down," WDRB News (9/12/2024)
• Quoted in "Massive Court Breach Exposed Confidential Court Testimony, Medical And Psychiatric Records," Forbes (7/18/2024)
• Quoted in "Monroe County cyberattack response will take time and money, expert says," Indiana Public Media (7/10/2024)
• Quoted in "New cybersecurity center fellowship prepares IU students for careers protecting critical systems," IU News (7/3/2024)
• Co-wrote "Moving Slow and Fixing Things," Lawfare Media (6/20/2024)
• Quoted in "Small Businesses Look to College Students to Help Guard Against Hackers," Wall Street Journal (3/17/2024)
• Quoted in "Indiana driver data 'opt out' bill fails to advance this legislative session," WRTV News (3/12/2024)
• Quoted in "IU advancing safe, trustworthy AI as part of new US government consortium," IU News (2/15/2024)
• Co-wrote "The Difficulties of Defining 'Secure-by-Design'," Lawfare (2/6/2024)
• Quoted in "Highly ranked cybersecurity master's program teaches in-demand skills for growing field," Cybersecurity Dive (1/29/2024)
• Mentioned in "People Moves: Triple-I Adds 4 Non-Resident Scholars; Tate Appointed Aspen’s Head of Product for Inland Marine; Schuermann Named President of Berkley Entertainment," Insurance Journal (12/22/2023)
• Quoted in "BMV reveals how it spends millions generated from selling your personal information," WRTV News (12/20/2023)
• Quoted in "Indiana companies face million-dollar decisions as ransomware attacks spike," News and Tribune (12/11/2023)
• Mentioned in "Space Governance Lab confronts ‘final frontier’ in policy and security," IU News (11/21/2023)
• Quoted in "IU Cybersecurity Clinic to expand training to undergraduates with grant from Google | WBIW," WBIW News (10/25/2023)
• Quoted in "IU Cybersecurity Clinic to expand training to undergraduates with grant from Google," IU News (10/18/2023)
• Wrote "If Software Companies Are Liable for Bugs, How Exactly Would That Work?," Wall Street Journal (6/9/2023)
• Quoted in "New law will give Hoosiers more control over how companies use their data," Fox 59 News (5/19/2023)
• Quoted in "Governor signs law requiring BMV to disclose how it spends money generated from selling your personal info," WRTV News (5/1/2023)
• Wrote "How the U.S. Can Use Taxes to Improve Cybersecurity," Wall Street Journal (2/15/2023)
• Co-wrote "Plans for deep seabed mining pit renewable energy demand against ocean life in a largely unexplored frontier," The Conversation (1/17/2023)
• Co-wrote "China's new space station opens for business in an increasingly competitive era of space activity," The Conversation (12/15/2022)
• Co-wrote "China's new space station opens for business in an increasingly competitive era of space activity," Lake County News (12/10/2022)
• Contributed to "Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation," The Conversation (10/17/2022)

Selected works

• GOVERNING NEW FRONTIERS IN THE INFORMATION AGE: TOWARD CYBER PEACE (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020).
• THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020).
• MANAGING CYBER ATTACKS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, BUSINESS AND RELATIONS: IN SEARCH OF CYBER PEACE (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
• The Sport of Cybersecurity: How Professional Sports Leagues Can Better Protect the Competitive Integrity of their Games, __ BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW __ (forthcoming 2020) (with Nathaniel Grow).
• The Future of Frontiers, __ LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW __ (forthcoming 2020).
• Rethinking Active Defense: A Comparative Analysis of Proactive Cybersecurity Policymaking, __ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW __ (forthcoming 2020) (with Danuvasin Charoen, Tristen Waite, & Nancy Zhang).
• Smart Factories, Dumb Policy? Managing Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Risks in the Industrial Internet of Things, __ MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF LAW, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY __ (forthcoming 2020).
• Unpacking the Rise of Benefit Corporations: A Transatlantic Comparative Case Study, __ VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW __ (2019) (with Janine Hiller & Xiao Ma).T
• The Firm and Common Pool Resource Theory: Understanding the Rise of Benefit Corporations, 55 AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 5 (2018) (with Janine S. Hiller).
• Securing the Internet of Healthcare, 19 MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF LAW, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 405 (2018) (with Michael Mattioli, Steve Myers, Austin Brady, Yvette Wang, and Stephanie Wong).
• When Toasters Attack: Enhancing the ‘Security of Things’ through Polycentric Governance, 2017 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 415 (2017) (with Anjanette Raymond, Danuvasin Charoen, Rakshana Balakrishnan, Prakhar Dixit, Julianna Gjonaj, & Rachith Kavi).
• Making Democracy Harder to Hack: Should Elections be Classified as ‘Critical Infrastructure?’, 50 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF LAW REFORM 629 (2017) (with Michael Sulmeyer, Bruce Schneier, Anne Boustead, Ben Buchanan, Amanda Craig, Trey Herr, & Jessica Malekos Smith).
• The Law of Cyber Peace, 18 CHICAGO JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1 (2017).
• Block-by-Block: Leveraging the Power of Blockchain Technology to Build Trust and Promote Cyber Peace, 19 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND TECHNOLOGY 334 (2017) (with Steve Myers).

Related links

• IU Kelley School of Business Faculty Profile
• Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance

Areas of expertise

• Cybersecurity law