John Gorham Palfrey VII was born on 1972 and is an American educator, scholar, and law professor.
36 Facts About John Palfrey
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John Palfrey is an authority on the legal aspects of emerging media and an advocate for Internet freedom, including increased online transparency and accountability as well as child safety.
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John Palfrey was co-captain of Harvard's 1994 undefeated national championship squash team, winning the team's fourth straight national title.
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John Palfrey returned to Boston and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2001.
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John Palfrey served as finance director in Boston for the campaign of Lois Pines for the position of Massachusetts Attorney General.
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John Palfrey served as executive director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
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John Palfrey served as the founding chairman of the Digital Public Library of America when it became a stand-alone entity, serving in that role until 2015.
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In 2003, John Palfrey was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Law School, partly hired by Elena Kagan, and his research interests included intellectual property issues such as copyright law, Internet law, and international law.
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John Palfrey served as a visiting professor of Law and Information at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland, from 2007 to 2008.
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John Palfrey served as the vice-dean of library and information services at the Harvard Law School's library, and led a reorganization effort in 2009.
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John Palfrey was appointed to the vice-dean post in 2008.
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John Palfrey was awarded tenure at the Harvard Law School in 2008.
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In 2012, John Palfrey became the head of school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
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John Palfrey was the fifteenth person to serve as the academy's head of school, and his investiture was celebrated on September 26,2012.
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John Palfrey was profiled in Town and Country magazine in 2015.
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John Palfrey was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
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John Palfrey is regarded as an authority about how people use technology, including how they relate to information and engage in politics in emerging digital media such as the Internet.
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John Palfrey is a supporter of information sharing while maintaining copyrights:.
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In 2008, John Palfrey served as the chair of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, a year-long national effort to explore how children could "avoid unwanted contact and content" online.
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John Palfrey believes digital literacy should be an important public issue in schools so that kids can "sort credible from non-credible information".
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John Palfrey testified before Congress on child safety issues in the digital age.
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John Palfrey advocated flexibility in legal solutions for coping with cyberbullying, which happens when "kids treat one another awfully online", and he recommended that laws not be too tied to specific technologies.
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John Palfrey was a member of a pro bono legal team that helped defend street artist Shepard Fairey in a "fair use" case involving an Associated Press photograph of Barack Obama in his Hope poster.
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John Palfrey urged Congress to write legislation to discourage prominent Internet firms such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems from bending to pressure by foreign governments to censor web information or forcing them to reveal the identities of dissidents, as part of the Open Net Initiative.
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John Palfrey commented in the Boston Globe about how political campaigns in the United States were increasingly being carried out in cyberspace.
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John Palfrey's parents are both professors of medicine with a specialty in pediatrics.
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John Palfrey's mother, Judith Palfrey, was the chief of general pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and is a professor emeritus of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
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John Palfrey's father, Sean Palfrey, is a professor emeritus of clinical pediatrics at Boston University Medical School.
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John Palfrey's parents served as faculty deans of Adams House at Harvard College.
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John Palfrey is a great-great-grandson of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.
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John Palfrey's family has many connections to Harvard University, including through his ancestor, John G Palfrey, the first dean of the Harvard Divinity School and prominent historian of the 19th century.
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Palfrey's father was born John Gorham Palfrey, III, and is a 1967 graduate of Harvard, as is his mother, born Judith Swann Sullivan.
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John Palfrey's father is considered John Gorham Palfrey, IV or John Palfrey, VI.
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John Palfrey had a younger brother who didn't live for a day and a younger sister, Antonia Ford Palfrey, named for their 3rd great-grandmother, Antonia Willard.
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John Palfrey's great-grandfather, John Gorham Palfrey II was an 1896 graduate of Harvard and a lawyer in Boston.
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John Palfrey's grandmother was Belle Wyatt "Clochette" Roosevelt Palfrey, a daughter of Kermit Roosevelt, sister of Kermit Roosevelt Jr.