Vince Vitkowsky is an attorney in New York. He focuses on cyber and artificial intelligence risks, liabilities, litigation, and insurance, and their intersection with national and international security. This includes the creation and interpretation of war and state-sponsored cyber operation exclusions in the U.S. and international markets, and analysis and advice on collateral damage from widespread or systemic risks, ransomware attacks, network attacks, system failures, privacy breachers, cybercrime, and matters with OFAC implications. It also includes analysis and advice on emerging developments, laws, regulations, litigation, and insurance claims and coverage relating to artificial intelligence.

Vince has written and spoken extensively to industry, legal, and public policy groups on subjects ranging from the development of customary international law to the use of force in counterterrorism to international law under the U.S. constitution. In recent years, he has focused on artificial intelligence, cyberwar, state-sponsored cyber operations, the activities of patriotic citizen hacking groups, and other non-state actors, and the applicability of the Law of Armed Conflict to cyberattacks. He is also a co-author of the NSI’s Law and Policy Paper on Responding to China at the United Nations.

Vince served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society’s International and National Security Law Practice Group for over 10 years. He has been an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Law and Counterterrorism of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Vince also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Cornell Law School.