Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan Zittrain Biography

Jonathan Zittrain is an internationally-known cyberlaw scholar, writer and speaker, who currently teaches at Harvard and Stanford Universities.

Expert on Computer Security

Jonathan's main areas of interest include law and policy surrounding the internet, as well as intellectual property, censorship, content control and computer security. He is widely regarded as a leading expert in his field.

Computer Science & Public Policy

On completing a first degree from Yale University in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, he went on to gain a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His recent research includes the study of Internet filtering by national governments, the role of intermediaries as points of control in Internet architecture, and the taxation of Internet commerce.

He is the founder of the H2O Project, which produces simple, unobtrusive but novel tools for use in classrooms, and is co-founder of the Chilling Effects web site, where Google and others report requests that information be censored. He comes to the Oxford Internet Institute from Harvard Law School where he was the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies. At Harvard Law School he co-founded the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He will coordinate a significant research and teaching relationship between the Berkman Centre and the OII, and is the Berkman Visiting Professor at Harvard. Professor Zittrain is a Professorial Fellow of Keble College, which has developed particular interest in computer science and public policy.

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