David Silverlid

About David Silverlid

David Silverlid is a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Candidate in International Law at Örebro University and a Visiting Fellow at the Swedish Defence University's Department of International and Operational Law. David earned his Master of Laws (LL.M.) Degree as a Fulbright Scholar from UCLA School of Law, where he was awarded the Morris Greenspan Memorial Prize and the Masin Family Academic Excellence Gold Award. Before entering academia, David held positions at the ICRC Delegation to the United Nations in New York and the Department for International Law at Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He also served as Country Director for an American NGO that investigated mass atrocities and conducted capacity-building programs in East Africa and Southeast Asia.

David is a generalist international lawyer with interests in cyberspace and technology, the use of force, armed conflict, national security, and the history and politics of international law, as well as international dispute settlement and arbitration. His current research focuses on enforcement jurisdiction in cyberspace and analyzes to what extent the international law of jurisdiction is changing, be it in customary international law or through the development of treaty law or non-binding norms and principles.

David serves as the Secretary of the Swedish Branch of the International Law Association and has held visiting appointments at Kyoto University, the National University of Singapore and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.