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Jonathan Zittrain joined Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute as Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation in September 2005. He is an internationally-known cyberlaw scholar whose recent research includes the study of Internet filtering by national governments, the role of intermediaries as points of control in Internet architectures, and the taxation of Internet commerce. He is the founder of the H2O Project which produces simple, unobtrusive but novel tools for use in classrooms, and is co-founder of the Chilling Effects website, where Google and others report requests that information be censored. He comes to Oxford from Harvard Law School, where he co-founded the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies.

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