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- Interests:
- Peer Production / P2P, Filtering, Surveillance
- Discipline(s)
- Law, Science and Technology
- Role(s):
- Researcher
Current Institutional Affiliation(s) (Past Affiliations)
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Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Harvard UniversityCambridge , MA, United States
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
Projects
Publications and Resources
Books
- Jonathan Zittrain. The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It. Yale University Press, 2008