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{{short description|American law professor (born 1969)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox person | image = Jonathan Zittrain at Cambridge in 2018 (2) (cropped).jpg | alt = Jonathan Zittrain seated next to a lectern | caption = Zittrain in 2018 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|12|24}} | birth_place = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], U.S. | education = {{ubl|[[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])|[[Harvard University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]], [[Public Administration|MPA]])}} | occupation = Professor | organization = {{ubl|[[Harvard University]]|[[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]}} | spouse = | children = | website = {{URL|http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/jzittrain}} }} '''Jonathan L. Zittrain''' (born December 24, 1969) is an American professor of [[cyber law|Internet law]] and the George Bemis Professor of International Law at [[Harvard Law School]]. He is also a professor at the [[Harvard Kennedy School]], a professor of computer science at the [[Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences]], and co-founder and director of the [[Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society]]. 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]]. He is the author of ''[[The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It]]'' as well as co-editor of the books, ''Access Denied'' ([[MIT Press]], 2008), ''Access Controlled'' (MIT Press, 2010), and ''Access Contested'' (MIT Press, 2011). Zittrain works in several intersections of the [[Internet]] with law and policy including [[intellectual property]], [[Internet censorship|censorship]] and filtering for [[content-control software|content control]], and [[computer security]]. He founded a project at the [[Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society]] that develops classroom tools.<ref name=NW /> In 2001 he helped found [[Chilling Effects]], a collaborative archive created by [[Wendy Seltzer]] to protect lawful online activity from legal threats. He also served as vice dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard.<ref>[http://www.tbo.com/health-lifestyles/will-you-find-tantalizing-stories-in-harvard-law-books-20160313 Will you find tantalizing stories in Harvard law books?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319071033/http://www.tbo.com/health-lifestyles/will-you-find-tantalizing-stories-in-harvard-law-books-20160313/ |date=March 19, 2016 }}, Sharon Tate Moody, [[Tampa Tribune]], March 13, 2016</ref>
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