Scott J. Shackelford, JD, PhD, is associate vice president and vice chancellor for research at Indiana University Bloomington and provost professor of business law and ethics at the Kelley School of Business. He additionally serves as director of the Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance and is a senior fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). Professor Shackelford 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, including The Metaverse: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2025), Forks in the Digital Road: Key Decisions that Gave Us the Internet We Have (Oxford University Press, 2024), Cyber Peace: Charting a Path Toward a Sustainable, Stable, and Secure Cyberspace (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2020), and Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations: In Search of Cyber Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Professor Shackelford has written more than 100 articles, book chapters, essays, and op-eds for diverse outlets ranging from the University of Illinois Law Review and the American Business Law Journal to the Christian Science Monitor and HuffPost. His research has been covered by diverse outlets, including Politico, NPR, Forbes, Time, Forensic Magazine, Law360, Washington Post, and the L.A. Times.
Both his 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, and the 2015 Elinor Ostrom Award.
Eytan Tepper, PhD, is a research professor of space governance and security and director of the Space Governance Lab at Indiana University Bloomington, where he is affiliated with the Ostrom Workshop established by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom. He teaches courses on space governance, space-cyber governance, and space cybersecurity and serves as program director of the new Space Cybersecurity Digital Badge program at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Professor Tepper earned his doctorate from the McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law and subsequently pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the New York University (NYU) School of Law. A renowned expert on space law, governance, and security, he leads research projects on global space governance, the laws of space warfare, space-cyber power, and the commercial space revolution. Professor Tepper’s approach is transdisciplinary, employing cutting-edge literature from international law, international relations, political economy, and strategic studies.
Professor Tepper has been published in journals like the Maryland Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, Constitutional Political Economy, Global Studies Quarterly, McGill Annals of Air and Space Law, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Journal of Space Law, Space Policy Journal, and New Space journal. In addition, he has presented his work in key venues in academia and beyond, including Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, the American Society of International Law, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), IEEE, DEFCON, and the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
Prior to returning to academia, he was a practicing lawyer with a career spanning the public and private sectors, representing government ministries and Fortune 500 companies.
