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Jonathan Zittrain

Male, USA, b.1969
Personal website
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/zittrain.html
Interests
Peer Production / P2P, Filtering, Surveillance

Role(s)
Researcher


Current Institutional Affiliation(s)


Discipline(s)

  • Law
  • Science and Technology

Biography

Jonathan Zittrain 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.

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

Publications and Resources

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