20 Facts About Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan L Zittrain was born on December 24,1969 and is an American professor of Internet law and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School.

Previously, Zittrain was Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford and visiting professor at the New York University School of Law and Stanford Law School.

Jonathan Zittrain is the author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It as well as co-editor of the books, Access Denied, Access Controlled, and Access Contested.

Jonathan Zittrain served as vice dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard.

In 2004 with Jennifer K Harrison, Zittrain published The Torts Game: Defending Mean Joe Greene, a book the authors dedicated to their parents.

Jonathan Zittrain's brother, Jeff, is an established Bay Area musician.

Jonathan Zittrain's sister, Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg, is a scholar of the Arab and Israeli conflict and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Jonathan Zittrain, who grew up in the suburb of Churchill outside of Pittsburgh, graduated in 1987 from Shady Side Academy, a private school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Jonathan Zittrain was law clerk for Stephen F Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and served with the US Department of Justice and, in 1991, with the Department of State, as well as at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1992 and 1994.

Jonathan Zittrain was a longtime forum administrator, or sysop, for the online service CompuServe, serving for many years as the chief administrator for its private forum for all of its forum administrators.

Jonathan Zittrain joined the staff of the University of Oxford in Oxford in the United Kingdom as of September 2005.

Jonathan Zittrain held the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation, was a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute, and was a Professorial Fellow of Keble College, which has developed a particular interest in computer science and public policy.

Jonathan Zittrain was a visiting professor at the Stanford Law School in 2007 and was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law in Manhattan for the spring 2008 semester.

Jonathan Zittrain searched for novel ways to use technology unobtrusively in the classroom at Harvard, founded H2O and used the system to teach his classes.

Jonathan Zittrain has been critical of the process used by ICANN, the International Telecommunication Union and the World Summit on the Information Society.

In 2009 Jonathan Zittrain was elected to the Internet Society's board of trustees for a four-year term.

In May 2011 Jonathan Zittrain was made for Federal Communications Commission Distinguished Scholar.

In 2001, Jonathan Zittrain cofounded Chilling Effects with his students and former students, including its creator and leader, Wendy Seltzer.

In 2003 Jonathan Zittrain said he was concerned that Congress will hear the same arguments after the 20-year extension passes, and that the Internet is causing a "cultural reassessment of the meaning of copyright".

In February 2019, Jonathan Zittrain interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as part of a seminar for students at Harvard.