Amy Beth Cyphert

Associate Professor at the West Virginia University College of Law

Amy Beth Cyphert is an Associate Professor at the West Virginia University College of Law. A Morgantown native, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 as a Truman Scholar and earned her law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2005.

Following law school, Cyphert clerked for the Honorable Laura Taylor Swain in the Southern District of New York. She then worked as a senior litigation associate at WilmerHale in New York City, focusing on complex commercial litigation and First Amendment pro bono matters.

At WVU, she developed and teaches courses on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, including a course on Regulating AI. Her recent research explores the impact of generative artificial intelligence on the legal profession, copyright law, and broader regulatory challenges. She has also written extensively about algorithmic decision-making in the criminal justice system. In 2021, she received the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum for her scholarship on machine-learning algorithms and online surveillance.