Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1969) is an American professor of
Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at
Harvard Law School. He is also a professor at the
Harvard Kennedy School, a professor of computer science at the
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and co-founder and director of the
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Previously, Zittrain was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the
Oxford Internet Institute of the
University of Oxford and visiting professor at the
New York University School of Law and
Stanford Law School. He is the author of ''
The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It'' as well as co-editor of the books, ''Access Denied'' (
MIT Press, 2008), ''Access Controlled'' (MIT Press, 2010), and ''Access Contested'' (MIT Press, 2011).
Zittrain works in several intersections of the
Internet with law and policy including
intellectual property,
censorship and filtering for
content control, and
computer security. He founded a project at the
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society that develops classroom tools. In 2001 he helped found
Chilling Effects, a collaborative archive created by
Wendy Seltzer to protect lawful online activity from legal threats. He also served as vice dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard.
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