John G. Palfrey

Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law

Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources

Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Research Interests

• Access to Knowledge
• Intellectual Property
• Internet and Democracy
• Youth and Technology

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Intellectual Property
• Internet Law

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Intellectual Property in the Internet Context
• Internet and Politics
• Security and Technology
• Youth and New Media

Education

• Harvard College A.B. 1994
• University of Cambridge M.Phil. 1997
• Harvard Law School J.D. 2001

Appointments

• Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, 2002
• Lecturer on Law, 2003-2005
• Clinical Professor of Law, 2005
• Special Advisor for Information Technology, 2006
• Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, 2008
• Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources, 2008

Representative Publications

• Palfrey, John G. & Urs Gasser. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books 2008).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  (German translation: Generation Internet: Die Digital Natives: Wie sie leben, was sie denken, wie sie arbeiten (Franka Reinhart & Violeta Topalova, trans., Hanser 2008). Italian translation: Nati con la Rete: la prima generazione cresciuta su Internet: istruzioni per l'uso (Rizzoli 2009))
  
• 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
  
• Palfrey, John G. & Robert Rogoyski. "The Move to the Middle: The Enduring Threat of "Harmful" Speech to the End-to-End Principle," 21 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 31 (2006).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Johnson, David, Susan Crawford & John G. Palfrey. "The Accountable Net: Peer Production of Internet Governance," 9 Virginia Journal of Law and Technology 9 (2004).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Palfrey, John G. "The End of the Experiment: How ICANN's Foray into Global Internet Democracy Failed," 17 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 409 (2004).
  Full text: WWW
  

Bibliography

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