Jonathan L. 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 and Faculty Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the use and abuse of technology for public discourse, and ethics and governance in artificial intelligence.

Jonathan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Board of Advisors for Scientific American. He was the Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Federal Communications Commission, and previously chaired the FCC’s Open Internet Advisory Committee. His book The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It, predicted the end of general purpose client computing and the corresponding rise of new gatekeepers, and his co-edited paper Don’t Panic – Making Progress on the “Going Dark” Debate, represented views from government officials, academics, and civil rights proponents on how surveillance through popular consumer devices will be effected and might be appropriately restrained.  These and other works may be found at .