Talita Dias is an Associate Professor in Law and Public Policy at the Max Bell School of Public Policy as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Before joining the School, Talita was the International Policy and Government Lead at the Partnership on AI, where she led research on global AI governance and government affairs. Talita also held positions at Chatham House (where she was a Senior Research Fellow in the International Law Programme); the University of Oxford (as a Research Fellow and a Lecturer in Law & Public Policy, International Law and Criminal Law); and Royal Holloway (as a Teaching Fellow in International Law). She has consulted for governments, international organisations (including the European Union External Action Service and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research), and civil society organisations on issues at the intersection of law, policy and technology. She is the co-author of the Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States, and the author of Beyond Imperfect Justice. Talita holds a DPhil and a master’s in law (Magister Juris) from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, where she is also a barrister.
Course offered:
Core Policy Course: Law and Public Policy
Policy Case Study: Cybersecurity, Law and Policy
