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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
 that focuses on the legal study of cyberspace
Cyberspace

Cyberspace — from the Greek language — is the global domain of electro-magnetics accessed through electronic technology and exploited through the modulation of electromagnetic energy to achieve a wide range of communication and control system capabilities....
. As of May 15, 2008 the Center was elevated to an interfaculty initiative of Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. Sister centers started by Berkman founders include the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and the Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford Internet Institute

The Oxford Internet Institute is a multi-disciplinary institute based at the University of Oxford, England, and housed in Balliol College, Oxford....
.

Berkman Center was founded in 1997 by professors Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan L. Zittrain is an United States professor of cyber law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society....
 and Charlie Nesson. Since then it has grown from a small project within Harvard Law School to an interdisciplinary center of its own.






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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
 that focuses on the legal study of cyberspace
Cyberspace

Cyberspace — from the Greek language — is the global domain of electro-magnetics accessed through electronic technology and exploited through the modulation of electromagnetic energy to achieve a wide range of communication and control system capabilities....
. As of May 15, 2008 the Center was elevated to an interfaculty initiative of Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. Sister centers started by Berkman founders include the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and the Oxford Internet Institute
Oxford Internet Institute

The Oxford Internet Institute is a multi-disciplinary institute based at the University of Oxford, England, and housed in Balliol College, Oxford....
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History and mission

The Berkman Center was founded in 1997 by professors Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan L. Zittrain is an United States professor of cyber law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society....
 and Charlie Nesson. Since then it has grown from a small project within Harvard Law School to an interdisciplinary center of its own. It sponsors conferences, visiting lecturers, and residential and non-residential fellows.

Members of the center research, teach, and write books, articles, weblogs with RSS 2.0
RSS (file format)

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works?such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video?in a standardized format....
 feeds (for which the Center holds the specification), and podcasts (of which the first series took place at the Berkman Center). Its newsletter, "The Filter", is on the Web and available by e-mail, and it hosts a blog community of Harvard faculty, students, and Berkman Center affiliates. The Berkman Center is funding the Openlaw
Openlaw

Openlaw is a project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School aimed at releasing case arguments under a copyleft license, in order to encourage public suggestions for improvement....
 project, and is a co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative
OpenNet Initiative

The OpenNet Initiative is a joint project whose goal is to monitor and report on Censorware and Computer surveillance practices by nations. The project employs a number of technical means, as well as an international network of investigators, to determine the extent and nature of government-run internet filtering programs....
. Other projects include Global Voices Online
Global Voices Online

Global Voices Online is an international network of bloggers and citizen journalists that follow, report, and summarizes what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of the world....
 and the recent StopBadware
Stopbadware

StopBadware.org is a consumer-oriented nonprofit organization aimed at fighting malicious software, or "badware". The organization is run by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and Oxford University's Oxford Internet Institute....
 initiative.

Members

Fellows have included David Weinberger
David Weinberger

David Weinberger is an American technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto ....
; Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman was a co-founder of Tripod.com, a web hosting enterprise, and later founder of Geekcorps. He currently serves as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society....
; Dave Winer
Dave Winer

Dave Winer is an United States software developer and entrepreneur in Berkeley, California, California. A pioneer in the areas of RSS as "Really Simple Syndication", XML-RPC, OPML, outliners, and the MetaWeblog API, he is also the author of , one of the oldest Blog, established in 1997....
; Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an United States Internet entrepreneur known for his role in the creation of Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia launched in 2001....
; Rebecca MacKinnon
Rebecca MacKinnon

File:MacKinnon.jpgRebecca MacKinnon is a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo, before leaving television to become a blogger and co-founder of Global Voices Online....
; John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow is an United States poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, political activist and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead....
; Wendy Seltzer
Wendy Seltzer

Wendy Seltzer is an American lawyer and currently a visiting Practitioner in Residence at the American University Washington College of Law. Seltzer is also a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where she founded and leads the Chilling Effects clearinghouse, aimed at helping Internet users to understand their rights...
; James F. Moore
James F. Moore

James F. Moore studies co-evolution in social and economic systems. His recent work has focused on understanding the "economics of peace."Moore was a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society from 2000 to 2004....
; John Clippinger and Doc Searls
Doc Searls

David "Doc" Searls , co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, is a widely-read weblogger and a columnist. A longtime advocate of open-source software, he is senior editor for Linux Journal....
.

Faculty have included Charles Nesson
Charles Nesson

Charles Rothwell Nesson is the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society....
, Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is an United States Academia and political activist. He is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and will soon re-join the faculty at Harvard Law School....
, Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan L. Zittrain is an United States professor of cyber law at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society....
, William "Terry" Fisher
William W. Fisher

William "Terry" W. Fisher III is the Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society....
, John Palfrey
John Palfrey

John Palfrey is the faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, vice dean for library and information resources, and a tenured professor at Harvard Law School....
, and Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler is Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the author of The Wealth of Networks and the paper Coase's Penguin....
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The center also has active groups of affiliates and alumni who host and participate in their projects each year.

See also

  • Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School
    Yale Law School

    Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, Doctor of Laws#United States, and Master of Studies in Law degrees in law....
  • Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Boalt Hall
  • at Stanford Law School
    Stanford Law School

    Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California, United States, in Silicon Valley. The Law School was established in 1893 when former POTUS Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law....
  • New York University School of Law
    New York University School of Law

    The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the Juris Doctor, LL.M., and J.S.D....


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