Reid Skibell graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1997, received a master's degree in information systems from the London School of Economics in 2000, and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2004, where we was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a recipient of the Young B. Smith Prize and the Milbank Law & Economics Fellowship. After law school, Mr. Skibell practiced at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Mr. Skibell has authored numerous articles, including Lowering the Bar: The Unanticipated Consequences of the Trademark Dilution Revision Act for Search Engine Advertising, 9 J. Internet L. 1 (2005) (with Nahal Kazemi); Managing Risk to Reputation: The Challenge of the Internet for Legal Recruiting, 2005 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 2 (2005) (with Tugba Colpan); Separation of Powers and the Commander in Chief: Congress's Authority to Override Presidential Decisions in Crisis Situations, 13 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 183 (2004); Cyber-crimes & Misdemeanors: A Reevaluation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 909 (2003); The Phenomenon of Insecure Software in a Security-Focused World, 8 J. Tech. L. & Pol'y 107 (2003); and The Myth of the Computer Hacker, 5 Info., Comm. & Soc'y 3 (2002).