Jonathan Zittrain

Prerequisite: This is a JD 1L only offering. Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course offers a rigorous introduction to the field of cyberlaw. We will…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: None The conventional wisdom around the responsibilities of platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon has evolved greatly. 1995-2010 roughly saw the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will examine key readings and projects surrounding the ethics and governance of the opaque complex adaptive…

Prerequisites: Admission to the seminar is by permission of the instructors. Students should complete the application at this link: https://brk.mn/ZittrainRoyApp. Students are also strongly…

Prerequisite: This is a JD 1L only offering. Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course offers a rigorous introduction…

John Palfrey & Jonathan Zittrain, Better Data for a Better Internet, 334 Science 1210 (2011).

John Bowers, Jack Cushman, Jayshree Sarathy & Jonathan Zittrain, ‘Time Capsule’ Archiving through Strong Dark Archives (SDA): Designing Trustable Distributed Archives for Sensitive Materials, J.

Jonathan Zittrain, How to Fix Twitter and Facebook, Atlantic (June 9, 2022).

Jonathan L. Zittrain and Jordi Weinstock, Torts! (MIT Press, 3rd ed., 2022).

Jonathan Zittrain, The Internet of Things Moment: My Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, Just Security (June 15, 2021)…

Samuel G. Finlayson, Adarsh Subbaswamy, Karandeep Singh, John Bowers, Annabel Kupke, Jonathan Zittrain, Isaac S. Kohane & Suchi Saria, The Clinician and Dataset Shift in…

Jonathan Zittrain, The Inexorable Push For Infrastructure Moderation, Techdirt: The Tech Policy Greenhouse (Sept. 24, 2021).

Jonathan Zittrain, John Bowers & Clare Stanton, The Paper of Record Meets an Ephemeral Web: An Examination of Linkrot and Content Drift within The New…

Jonathan Zittrain, The Internet is Rotting, The Atlantic (June 2021).

John Bowers, Clare Stanton & Jonathan Zittrain, What the Ephemerality of the Web Means for Your Hyperlinks, Col. Journalism Rev., May 21, 2021.

Samantha Bates, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Yunhan Xu & Jonathan Zittrain, Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution…

John Bowers, Elaine Sedenberg & Jonathan Zittrain, Platform Accountability Through Digital “Poison Cabinets”, Data and Democracy (Apr. 13, 2021).

Jonathan Zittrain & Will Marks, What Critics Don’t Understand about NFT’s: The Complexity and Arbitrariness of Non-fungible Tokens are a Big Part of their Appeal,…

Isaac S. Kohane & Jonathan Zittrain, Using a Collective ‘Virtuous Cycle’ to Break the Pandemic, STAT (Mar. 2, 2021).

Jonathan Zittrain, Impeachment Defense, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights, Just Security (Jan. 13, 2021).

Jonathan Zittrain, Intellectual Debt: With Great Power Comes Great Ignorance, Medium (July 24, 2019).

Margaret Bourdeaux, Beth Cameron & Jonathan Zittrain, Opinion, Coronavirus Testing Is on the Brink of Paralysis, N.Y. Times, July 17, 2020, at A25.

Jonathan Zittrain, Is Digital Contact Tracing Over Before It Began?, Medium (June 25, 2020).

Jonathan Zittrain, Twitter’s Least-Bad Option for Dealing With Donald Trump, Atlantic (June 26, 2020, 10:15 AM).

Jonathan Zittrain, Entering the Minefield of Digital Contact Tracing, Medium (May 5, 2020).

John Bowers, Tim Hwang & Jonathan Zittrain, What Should Newsrooms Do About Deepfakes? These Three Things, For Starters, 74 Nieman Rep., Winter 2020, at 34.

Jonathan Zittrain & John Bowers, A Start-Up is Using Photos to ID You. Big Tech Can Stop It From Happening Again, Wash. Post, Apr. 14,…

Jonathan Zittrain, A World Without Privacy Will Revive the Masquerade, Atlantic (Feb. 7, 2020).

John Bowers & Jonathan Zittrain, Answering Impossible Questions: Content Governance in an Age of Disinformation, 1 Harv. Kennedy Sch. Misinformation Rev. 1 (2020).

Jonathan Zittrain, A Jury of Random People Can Do Wonders for Facebook, The Atlantic (Nov. 14, 2019, 6:00 AM).

Jonathan Zittrain, Three Eras of Digital Governance (Sept. 23, 2019).

Jonathan L. Zittrain, John Perry Barlow’s Call For Persuasion Over Power, 18 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 137 (2019).

Jonathan Zittrain, The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking, NewYorker.com (July 23, 2019).

Jonathan Zittrain, Opinion, Taming the Consumer’s Computer, N.Y. Times, Mar. 11, 2002, at A21.

Jonathan Zittrain, Opinion, Calling Off the Copyright War in Battle of Property vs. Free Speech, No One Wins, Bos. Globe, Nov. 24, 2002, at D12.

Jonathan Zittrain, Supreme Court Copyright Ruling, Wash. Post (Jan. 16, 2003, 10:00 AM) (transcript of a live online discussion).

Jonathan Zittrain & Benjamin Edelman, Software Application to Collect Filtering Data (Berkman Ctr. for Internet & Soc’y, Oct. 24, 2003).

Jonathan Zittrain & John Palfrey, Deploying the Wisdom of the Crowds Against Badware, CNet (June 30, 2006, 5:28 AM).

Jonathan Zittrain & John Palfrey, Companies Need Guidance to Face Censors Abroad, CNet (Dec. 18, 2007, 8:50 AM).

Jonathan Zittrain, A Simple Way to Avoid Being the Next Star Wars Kid, Sunday Times (May 4, 2008, 1:00 AM).

Jonathan Zittrain, Privacy Invasions From Other Users, N.Y. Times (Feb. 18, 2009, 8:11 PM).

Jonathan Zittrain, Opinion, Lost in the Cloud, N.Y. Times, July 20, 2009, at A19.

Jonathan Zittrain, A Fight Over Freedom at Apple’s Core, Fin. Times, Feb. 4, 2010, at 9.

Jonathan Zittrain, An Impenetrable Web of Fees, N.Y. Times (Dec. 2, 2010, 7:20 AM).

Austan Goolsbee & Jonathan Zittrain, Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce (May 20, 1999).

Jonathan Zittrain & Benjamin Edelman, Statement of Issues and Call for Data on Differential Google Filtering (Berkman Ctr. for Internet & Soc’y, Oct. 26, 2002).

Jonathan Zittrain, A Mutual Aid Treaty for the Internet (Governance Studies at Brookings, Jan. 27, 2011).