David Silverlid

About David Silverlid

David Silverlid is a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Candidate in International Law at Örebro University and the Secretary of the Swedish Branch of the International Law Association. A Visiting Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, David has also held visiting appointments at Kyoto University, the National University of Singapore, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and the Swedish Defence University.

A generalist international lawyer whose current research focuses on enforcement jurisdiction in cyberspace, David is a member of the ILA Committee on Artificial Intelligence & Technology Law, the WASP-HS Wallenberg Research Cluster on the Rule of AI, and ARC – the AI, Robotics, and Cybersecurity Center. David’s research has been supported by the Sweden-America Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), the Theodor Adelswärd Research Foundation, the Sven & Dagmar Salén Foundation, the Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation, and the Emil Heijne Foundation for Legal Research.

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 consulted for an American NGO that investigated mass atrocities and conducted capacity-building programs in East Africa and Southeast Asia. David earned his Master of Laws (LL.M.) Degree as a Fulbright Scholar and Dean's Fellow at UCLA School of Law, where he was awarded the Morris Greenspan Memorial Prize and the Masin Family Academic Excellence Gold Award.