People

The Berkman Klein community includes a network of faculty, fellows, students, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.

Christopher Bavitz

Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Managing Director, Cyberlaw Clinic
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Christopher T. Bavitz is Managing Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He is also a Clinical Professor of Law at HLS, where he co-teaches the Counseling and Legal Strategy in the Digital Age seminar and teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media.

Yochai Benkler

Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Harvard Law School
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Yochai Benkler is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Harvard Law and a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. He writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society, as well as the organization of infrastructure, such as wireless communications.

John Deighton

Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

John Deighton studies online and social network marketing, and business institutions and practices that make use of personally identifiable data.

William Fisher

WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Harvard Law School
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

William Fisher is a Berkman Klein Center Director. He is the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and he specializes in intellectual property law and American legal history.

Urs Gasser

Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School
Executive Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Dr. Urs Gasser is the Berkman Klein Center's Executive Director, where his research and teaching focuses on information law and policy and the interaction between law and innovation.

Charles Nesson

William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Founder and Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Charles Nesson is a Berkman Klein Center Founder and Faculty Co-Director. He is the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School.

Ruth L. Okediji

Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Ruth L. Okediji is a renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property in social and economic development.

John Palfrey

Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

John is the Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover. His research and teaching focus on new media and learning. He has written extensively on Internet law, intellectual property, and the potential of new technologies to strengthen democracies locally and around the world.

Jeffrey Schnapp

Professor of Romance Languages & Literature, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Director, metaLAB (at) Harvard
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Jeffrey is Professor of Romance Languages & Literature, on the teaching faculty of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design,and is the faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard.

Margo I. Seltzer

Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Faculty Director, Center for Research on Computation and Society
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Margo I. Seltzer is the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science and the Faculty Director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) in Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her research interests are in systems, construed quite broadly: systems for capturing and accessing data provenance, file systems, databases, transaction processing systems, storage and analysis of graph-structured data, new architectures for parallelizing execution, and systems that apply technology to problems in healthcare.

Stuart Shieber

James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Stuart Shieber is the James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University and is a Faculty Director at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

Rebecca Tushnet

Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard Law School
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Rebecca Tushnet is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Law School. Her work currently focuses on copyright, trademark, and false advertising law and their relationship to the First Amendment.

Mark Wu

Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Mark Wu is an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Director of the Berkman Klein Center. His work focuses on international trade and international intellectual property matters.

Jonathan Zittrain

George Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School | Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Co-Founder, Director, and Faculty Chair, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

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, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.