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Jonathan Zittrain

Faculty
  • Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
  • Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Jonathan Zittrain

Contact Information

Email: a2jz [ AT ] law [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu
Office Phone: (617) 495 4643
Office Fax: (617) 495 7641

Recruitment Status

Not accepting graduate students

Websites

Education

  1. B.S. in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Yale University
  2. J.D., Harvard Law School
  3. M.P.A., Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Research Interests

    • Computer Science
    • Privacy and Security
    • Science, Technology, & Public Policy
    • Communications and Internet Policy
    • Governance of Emerging Technologies/Innovation Policy

Primary Teaching Area

Computer Science

Profile

Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor at the Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

He is a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and  a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society and is on the board of advisors for Scientific American.

Previously, he was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, which has named him a Young Global Leader.

His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.

His book, The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It,  focuses on the future of the now-intertwined Internet and PC, and he has co-edited two studies of Internet filtering by national governments, including Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.

Positions & Employment

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

  • 2010-Present: Professor of Computer Science

Harvard Kennedy School

  • 2008: Member of Faculty; Professor of Law

Harvard Law School

  • 2008: Professor of Law
  • 2007: Co-Founder and Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
  • 2006-2007: Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
  • 2001: Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
  • 2000: Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
  • 2000: Assistant Professor of Law
  • 1997: Lecturer on Law

University of Oxford

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Department of State and at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

  • 1992, 1992, 1994: Law clerk

CompuServ

  • Forum administrator, or sysop, for the online service and chief administrator for private forum for all forum administrators

Other Experience

  • Member, Board of Trustees of the Internet Society
  • Member, Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Member, the Board of Advisors for Scientific American

Selected Publications

  1. Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Ronald Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski & Jonathan Zittrain eds., MIT Press 2008).
    Full text: WWW
  2. Zittrain, Jonathan. The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It (Yale University Press & Penguin UK 2008).
    Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  3. Zittrain, Jonathan. "A History of Online Gatekeeping," 19 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 253 (2006).
    Full text: WWW
  4. Zittrain, Jonathan. "The Generative Internet," 119 Harvard Law Review 1975 (2006).
    Full text: WWW
  5. Zittrain, Jonathan. "Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity," Berkman Center Working Paper (forthcoming 2006).
    Full text: SSRN
  6. Zittrain, Jonathan. The Torts Game: Defending Mean Joe Greene (Aspen Publishing 2005).
    Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  7. Zittrain, Jonathan. "Normative Principles for the Evaluation of Free and Proprietary Software," 71, No. 1 University of Chicago Law Review (2004).
  8. Zittrain, Jonathan. "Internet Points of Control," 44 Boston College Law Review 653 (2003).
    Full text: WWW
  9. Zittrain, Jonathan. "What the Publisher Can Teach the Patient: Intellectual Property and Privacy in an Era of Trusted Privication," 52 Stanford Law Review 1201 (2000).