Jennifer Shkabatur
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S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow, LL.M. Advisor
Teaching Fellow, Government Department
| Status: | In Residence |
| Email: | jshkabatur [at] law.harvard.edu |
Dissertation
Global Risk Regulation and Information Networks
The dissertation explores the regulation of continuous diffuse and transnational risks (such as cybercrime, infectious diseases, and environmental hazards). It suggests a global regime for risk regulation that is based on the institutional framework of information networks, where transnational actors (governmental and intergovernmental bodies, NGOs, corporations and private individuals) collaborate to develop and harmonize regulatory policies. The dissertation studies the motivation of the various players to cooperate and share risk-related information in the international realm. Further, it examines two possible patterns for risk regulation: regulation from above, based on cooperation within formal networks of governmental, intergovernmental and private bodies; and regulation from below, based on cooperation within open and loose social networks of individuals.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Theories of International Law & Organizations, with Professor Jack L. Goldsmith, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Theories of Networks and Information Policy, with Professor Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School
- Theories and Patterns of Risk Reglation, with Professor Richard J. Zeckhauser, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Additional Research Interests
- Theories of Cooperation
- Internet and the Law
- Jurisprudence
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2007-Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program, 2006-2007
- Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, LL.B. 2004
- Max Planck Institute for Comparative, Private and Public Law, Hamburg, Germany, Visiting Researcher, 2004
Appointments and Fellowships
- Harvard Law School, 2007-2008, Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M. Advisor
- Harvard College, Government Department, 2008, Teaching Fellow
- Fulbright Scholar, 2006-2008
Additional Information
- Personal Resume
- Languages: English, Hebrew, Russian, French