Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. His research focuses on the control of digital content, privacy, and the use of technology in education. He has co-edited a series of studies of Internet filtering by national governments entitled Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering; Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace; and Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace, and is the author of The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former trustee of the Internet Society, a former Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and was previously a Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence at the Federal Communications Commission.

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