Nick is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center and an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee.
He specializes in technology law, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, computer crime, internet law, and intellectual property. He is the recipient of the Wilkinson Research Professor and the John Reginald Hill Awards for scholarly excellence at the University of Tennessee. Prior to his time in academia, Nick served as Senior Corporate Counsel to Amazon, where he supported Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing service, and worked with European regulators on net neutrality, cybersecurity, and telecom policy. He previously worked as an attorney for Microsoft, supporting Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service. He has also held business roles in the technology sector, both as a lead negotiator for Microsoft and as a product manager for Amazon.
Before going in-house, Nick worked as an associate attorney at Hogan Lovells, where he worked on technology transactions, telecom deals, and mergers and acquisitions, and as an associate attorney at Finnegan, where he practiced patent litigation and prosecution. In addition to his law degree, he holds an undergraduate degree in computer science and is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Nick serves as Vice Chair of the Number Resource Organization Numbering Counsel (NRO NC) for the American Region for Internet Numbers (ARIN), which acts as a liaison to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).