Classes
As a professor of law at Harvard Law School, John’s teaching has included:
- “Problem Solving Workshop” (a required 1L class at Harvard Law School)
- “iLaw” with several Berkman Center colleagues, and led by Jonathan Zittrain
- “Internet Research Methods” (an experimental seminar, co-taught with Eszter Hargittai of Northwestern)
- “Internet, Law, and Politics“
- “Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace,” with Phil Malone and Jeffrey Cunard
- “Cyberlaw and the Global Economy“
- “Digital Democracy,” led by Prof. Charles Nesson and a group of Berkman Center fellows
- “Internet Law Colloquium,” with Profs. Fisher, Nesson, and Zittrain
John also teaches sometimes outside of Harvard Law School:
- “Bibliotheca,” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, with Jeffrey Schnapp (fall, 2011)
- “Censorship,” in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with Robert Darnton (spring, 2012)
- “The Law of the Internet,” a freshman seminar at Harvard College (fall, 2005, and fall, 2006)
- “Law and Economics of Cyberspace,” with Prof. Urs Gasser, a seminar at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) (spring, 2006)
- “Internet & Society: the Technologies and Politics of Control” at the Harvard Extension School (2002 – 2005)
- a Study Group, with Prof. Jonathan Zittrain at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government (spring, 2003).
Teaching and Research Interests
- Intellectual property
- Youth and media
- Internet and democracy
- Internet governance
- Legal and regulatory control of online technologies
