Jonathan Zittrain
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Jonathan Zittrain (born 1969) holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and director and founder with Charles Nesson of its Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
[edit] Life and work
Zittrain was educated at Shady Side Academy, Yale University, Harvard Law School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
His research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He is a principal investigator of the Open Net Initiative, a collaboration between researchers at the University of Toronto, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School. He was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Eldred v. Ashcroft, and filed an amicus brief of law professors in the MGM v. Grokster Case.[1]
Zittrain is interested in the intersection of the law and the Internet. A partial list of projects he has started or been involved in includes:
- Open Net Initiative, which monitors internet censorship in repressive regimes;
- Chilling Effects, a site that monitors cease and desist letters;
- H2O, a group to develop better educational technologies;
- The Eldred v. Ashcroft litigation challenging extension of the copyright term.
Zittrain is currently teaching at Stanford University and will be a visiting professor at New York University in the spring of 2008.
[edit] External links
- Zittrain's homepage
- Zittrain's Blog
- Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- John F. Kennedy School of Government
- H2O Project
- Open Net Initiative
- The Secure Future of the Internet & How to Stop It - recent talk at a Cybersafety Conference held by the Oxford Internet Institute
- Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It: Zittrains' inaugural Lecture for Oxford University
