Jonathan Zittrain
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Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Email is zittrain at law.harvard.edu

Courses:
- Internet Law Colloquium, with Profs. Benkler and Fisher (2002)
- Torts (fall 2002)
- Internet & Society: The Technologies & Politics of Control (spring 2002)
- Counsel to the Internet Client: Practical Advice, Strategy, and Litigation (fall 2001)
- Torts (fall 2001)
- ilaw (summer 2001)
- Delivering Information Services (HBS, summer 2001)
- Reading group on new & forthcoming scholarship in cyberlaw (spring 2001)
- Torts (spring 2001)
- Internet & Society: The Technologies & Politics of Control (fall 2000)
- Internet & Society: The Technologies & Politics of Control (fall 1999)
- The Microsoft Case (fall 1998)
- The Law of Cyberspace--Social Protocols (fall 1998)
- Internet & Society (fall 1998)
- The High-Tech Entrepreneur, with Professor Lessig (winter 1998)
- Internet & Society Research Seminar (fall 1997)
- Torts, with Professor Nesson (fall 1996, 1997)
- The Law of Cyberspace, with Professor Lessig (winter 1997)
- The Internet: Business, Strategy, Law, & Policy, with Prof. Camp (spring 2000, Kennedy School of Gov't)
- The Exploding Internet, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School (summer 2000)
- The Law of Cyberspace, with Andrew McLaughlin (spring 1999, U.Mass Amherst)

Jonathan Zittrain is a co-founder of HLS's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000. His research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom.

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1992, 1994
U.S. Department of State, 1991

Education:
Harvard Law School, J.D. 1995;
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, M.P.A. 1995;
Yale University, B.S. Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, 1991.

Projects:
Chilling Effects
Eldred v. Ashcroft (co-counsel for plaintiffs)
H2O

Advisory boards & affiliations:
MediaUnbound
World Economic Forum (Forum Fellow, 2000-2002; GLT, 2000)
"Ed"
Council on Foreign Relations (term member)

publications | invited presentations