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Berkman Center co-founder returns to Harvard Law School
Sheri Qualters / Staff reporter
Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain
BOSTON — Berkman Center for Internet & Society co-founder Jonathan Zittrain will become a tenured professor at Harvard Law School and return to the Berkman Center as one of four faculty co-directors.
Zittrain is currently a professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University.
"Harvard Law School and the Berkman Center have become extraordinary platforms for innovation on and about the Internet," said Zittrain.
Zittrain returns to Harvard Law School and the Berkman Center as the center expands its role and the law school faculty moves toward an 'open access' model, which involves making scholarly articles by faculty members available on the Internet for free, said Dean Elena Kagan. Harvard Law School made its announcement about open access on May 7.
"In the field of cyberlaw, Jonathan Zittrain is a true pioneer," Kagan said.
"His scholarly work is some of the most thought-provoking in legal academia, and the ideas he grapples with are literally pushing the frontiers of his field." Professors Yochai Benkler, William Fisher, Charles Nesson, and John Palfrey, will also be faculty co-directors of the Berkman Center.
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