School of Law Welcomes Three New Faculty Members and One Visiting Professor

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Left to right, top to bottom: Robert Anderson, Amanda Fisher, Ido Kilovaty and Jacob Worlow

Ido Kilovaty, Amanda Fisher and Rob Anderson have joined the U of A School of Law faculty as professors of law.

"We are very pleased to have these three terrific faculty members join the law school community. Professors Kilovaty, Fisher and Anderson will bring experience, expertise and energy to our community from a diverse array of personal and professional backgrounds and contribute to our scholarly productivity, while increasing the breadth of our course offerings. We are delighted to have them," said Dean Cynthia Nance.

Ido Kilovaty
Kilovaty will teach Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Cybersecurity and Cyber Crime. He joins the U of A School of Law after previously serving as the Frederic Dorwart and Zedalis Family Fund Associate Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa, with a prior position for two years as a Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. During his time at Yale, he was a Cyber Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges and a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project, where he remains an affiliated fellow. Kilovaty was also a 2018-19 Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America. He specializes in the intersection of technology, law and society, with a focus on cybersecurity - domestic and international. His specific areas of research include cybersecurity law, computer crime law and domestic and global technology regulation. Kilovaty's research has appeared in the UC Irvine Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Tennessee Law Review, Harvard National Security Journal, Berkeley Law and Technology Journal, among others, and his op-eds and essays have appeared at Harvard Law Review Blog, Lawfare, Just Security, WIRED and TechCrunch.

Robert Anderson  
Anderson received his JD from New York University School of Law in 2000 and was associated with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP from 2000 to 2003 where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions and financial institutions regulation. In 2008, he received his PhD in political science at Stanford University, where his fields included American politics, political organizations and political methodology (statistics). Anderson's primary research interests are corporate and securities law, positive political theory of the judiciary and quantitative and empirical approaches to law. In particular, he has worked extensively on modeling judicial behavior and developing computational and empirical techniques for analyzing corporate transactions and corporate governance. Interestingly, Anderson has a strong interest in admiralty law. His courses will include Contracts, Securities Regulation, Corporate Finance and an upper-level elective.

Amanda Fisher
Prior to joining University of Arkansas, Fisher taught Legal Writing, Skills, and Values and Criminal Law to first-year law students at Seattle University. She has also taught upper-level writing courses such as Drafting. Fisher joins the Legal Research and Writing faculty in teaching the foundational 1L writing and advocacy curriculum. As a practicing attorney, Fisher specialized in consumer debt defense, construction defect litigation, common interest developments, and employment law in California. She earned a J.D. from Savannah Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in criminology, law and society. Her research includes stigma, identity, gender, and inclusive language.

In addition to the three permanent faculty members, Jacob Worlow will be a visiting clinical professor this fall.

Jacob Worlow
Worlow will have oversight of the Criminal Law Clinic at the School of Law. After earning his J.D. from the U of A School of Law in 2015, Worlow went on to clerk for the Supreme Court of Arkansas and now maintains a boutique litigation practice in jurisdictions around the country. He plays basketball, writes about cancer and believes attorneys have a unique responsibility, now more than ever, to help build trust in our world.    

About the University of Arkansas School of Law: The law school offers a competitive J.D. and is home to the nation's first LL.M. program in agriculture and food law. Led by nationally recognized faculty, the school offers students pro bono work, live client clinics, public service fellowships, competitions, and much more. Students also benefit from our location in one of the fastest growing, most livable, and economically vibrant regions in the U.S., and from our corporate externship partnerships with Fortune 500 companies. Our alumni have gone on to become judges, senators, and governors, and we serve communities throughout our state and nation through programs such as the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative. Our longstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion is exemplified by the Six Pioneers, the first Black students to attend law school in the South. Follow us at @uarklaw.