Maeve's background is in the legal, economic, policy, and educational issues relating to 
critical infrastructure protection, particularly the national and international security 
concerns regarding information infrastructure. She is now a doctoral candidate at 
Stockholm University Faculty of Law, where she was a course director of the 
Masters Program in Law and IT for the 2011 and 2012 springterms. Maeve was 
co-principal investigator for the Cyber Conflict Studies Association’s project on the legal 
issues of cyber conflict (U.S. focus). From 2005-2010, Maeve was on the research faculty
at the Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security, 
George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia. 
She devised the concept and led the team that was awarded the first contract 
funded through the U.S. DHS unsolicited proposal system. As an academic, Maeve has 
supported various initiatives of the Council of Europe, OECD, EU, NATO, 
and the U.S. NSTAC, among others.