Professor of Law
Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources
Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Professor of Computer Science, SEAS
Research Interests
- Control of Digital Property & Content
- Cryptography
- Electronic Privacy
- Internet Governance
- Technology in Education
Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work
- Cyberlaw
- Intellectual Property
- Torts
- Trademark
Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries
- Cryptography
- Cyberlaw
- Electronic Commerce
- Internet Governance
- Privacy
Education
- Yale University B.S. 1991, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
- Harvard Law School J.D. 1995
- Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government M.P.A. 1995
Appointments
- Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, 2000
- Assistant Professor of Law, 2000
- Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, 2001
- Chair, Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford University, 2005
- Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, 2006, 2007
- Professor of Law, 2008
- Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2010
Representative Publications
- Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Ronald Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski & Jonathan Zittrain eds., MIT Press 2008).
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- Zittrain, Jonathan. The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It (Yale University Press & Penguin UK 2008).
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- Zittrain, Jonathan. "A History of Online Gatekeeping," 19 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 253 (2006).
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- Zittrain, Jonathan. "The Generative Internet," 119 Harvard Law Review 1975 (2006).
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- Zittrain, Jonathan. The Torts Game: Defending Mean Joe Greene (Aspen Publishing 2005).
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- Zittrain, Jonathan. "Normative Principles for the Evaluation of Free and Proprietary Software," 71, No. 1 University of Chicago Law Review (2004).
- Zittrain, Jonathan. "Internet Points of Control," 44 Boston College Law Review 653 (2003).
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- 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).
Bibliography
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