Jeff Kosseff is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Law at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech, published by Cornell University Press in 2022 and supported by an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He also wrote Cybersecurity Law (Wiley), the first comprehensive textbook on U.S. cybersecurity laws and regulations, and in spring 2019 he published The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet (Cornell University Press), a nonfiction narrative history of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. His next book, Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2023.

Jeff has practiced cybersecurity and privacy law, and clerked for Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Michigan. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a journalist for The Oregonian and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.