Kyle K. Courtney

Part-Time Lecturer

  • Information assurance
  • Cyberlaw
  • Internet law
  • Intellectual property
  • JD in Intellectual Property Law, Suffolk University
  • MS in Library and Information Science, Simmons College
  • BA in History, University of Mary Washington

Kyle K. Courtney is an attorney presently teaching at both Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the School of Law at Northeastern University. At Khoury College, Courtney has taught “Cyberlaw: Privacy Ethics, and Digital Rights” as part of the Cybersecurity program for over a decade. He also teaches a seminar called “Special Topics in Privacy Law.” At Northeastern Law, Courtney teaches both the “Legal Writing Workshop” for the JD program and “Legal Research and Writing” for the LLM international program.

Courtney also works as the copyright advisor for Harvard University, where he collaborates closely with the community to establish a shared understanding of risk and legal issues in higher education. He currently teaches a section at Harvard Law School in training first-year law students on the fundamentals of legal research in the Legal Research and Writing program.

Courtney is also a published author and nationally recognized speaker on the topic of copyright, technology, and law whose writing has been featured in Politico, The Hill, Slate, and other publications.