Professor Nugent joined the Winston College of Law in 2023 after teaching for two years at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he also served as Program Director for the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy.

Professor Nugent specializes in intellectual property, privacy, and technology law, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, computer crime, and internet law. He also teaches property law. Prior to his time in academia, he 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, Professor Nugent 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. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Professor Nugent received his law degree from Vanderbilt Law School, where he attended on a full scholarship and was Managing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. He received dual undergraduate degrees in computer science and music performance (classical guitar). He continues to perform music publicly and to develop software in his spare time.

Professor Nugent writes primarily about how the internet operates and is governed, whether through regulation, litigation, or private governance. He also writes and speaks on privacy, cybersecurity, computer crime, and artificial intelligence. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Washington Law Review, the Tennessee Law Review, and the Colorado Technology Law Journal. He formerly served as Vice Chair of the Number Resource Organization Numbering Counsel (NRO NC) for the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), which acts as a liaison to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

He has received both the Wilkinson Junior Research Professorship Award and the John Reginald Hill Faculty Scholar Award.

 

• Education & Experience

J.D., Vanderbilt Law School

B.S. Indiana University (Computer Science)

B.M. Indiana University (Music Performance)

Curriculum Vitae