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- 09 September 2007 – Cambridge,
MA - The beginning of classes at Harvard Law School marks not just the start of
the new academic year, but also the 10th anniversary of the Berkman Center for
Internet & Society. Over the course of the past decade, the Berkman Center
has been home to many of the brightest minds in law, technology, and social
science, as well as leading entrepreneurs and activists, and this year's class
of fellows sets a new standard.
"This
collection of research and faculty fellows represents the largest and most
accomplished group that the Berkman Center has assembled over the past
decade," said Executive Director John Palfrey. "What better way to
celebrate our anniversary and past accomplishments, than by gathering a team
that will build upon the Berkman Center's history of looking around corners to
the next decade's issues and developments in cyberspace."
For
some fellows it is an opportunity to further their current work or incubate
their developments, while for others their expertise is applied to the growing
list of groundbreaking Berkman projects. Perhaps most importantly, they join a
dynamic community of past fellows, faculty, students, and staff that is
dedicated to scholarship with impact.
Members
of the incoming group include:
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Leading
academics in youth and social networking technology;
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Professors
from Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley School of Law - Boalt Hall, University of
Washington, and Vermont School of Law;
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Experts
from the Free/Open Software community;
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Renowned
legal scholars in the fields of intellectual property, interoperability,
open access, citizen media, and more;
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And
pioneers in the world of new media and technology.
They
join the prestigious group of existing interdisciplinary activists already
calling the Berkman Center home, including: David Ardia, Michael Best, John
Clippinger, Urs Gasser, Dan Gillmor, Lewis Hyde, Gene Koo, Mary Rundle, Doc
Searls, Wendy Seltzer, Jake Shapiro, Jimmy Wales, Stephanie Wang, David
Weinberger, and Ethan Zuckerman.
In
alphabetical order, the new 2007-2008 Berkman fellows include:
Sam
Bayard joins the Citizen Media Law Project after completing his LL.M. in Cairo.
The graduate from Cornell Law School also brings his experience as a litigation
associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York to the burgeoning
project.
Danah
Boyd is a doctoral candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information, a blogger,
and a leading researcher in how American youth engage in networked publics like
MySpace and Facebook.
Chris
Conley, a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, also holds degrees in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and will apply all of these
disciplines as a member of the OpenNet Initiative.
Corinna
di Gennaro comes to the Berkman Center by way of the Annenberg Center at USC,
Oxford University, and the Oxford Internet Institute, which have all led to her
current work on civic and political engagement, youth, and new media.
Judith
Donath is a faculty fellow from MIT, where she is an Assistant Professor at the
MIT Media Lab. Judith focuses on the social side of computing: she develops
analytical methods for understanding the relationship between technology design
and social behavior, and she creates innovative social tools and interfaces.
Melanie
Dulong de Rosnay is a legal scholar who recently served as legal counsel for
Creative Commons France and is a doctoral candidate at the Administrative
Science Studies and Research Center (CERSA) in Paris. Melanie will focus her
efforts on the eIFL project, which seeks to provide access to vast electronic
libraries to transitional and developing countries.
Oliver
Goodenough, in addition to being a Berkman Faculty Fellow, is a Professor of Law
at Vermont Law School and an Adjunct Professor at Thayer School of Engineering
at Dartmouth College. He has been in legal practice for over 25 years and has
researched extensively the intersection of cognitive science and intellectual
property, as well as the digitizing of government-business interactions.
Shenja
van der Graaf is a leading scholar in the economic and social developments of
virtual worlds, whose academic travels have taken her to Utrecht University,
Leiden University, Comparative Media Studies at MIT, the Oxford Internet
Institute, and most recently the London School of Economics.
Beth
Kolko is a faculty fellow from the University of Washington, where she is
director of the Design for Digital Inclusion research group and heads the
Central Asia ICT research project. Beth has researched technology and
communication for nearly two decades and is currently focused on international
patterns of technology adoption and adaptation.
Karim
Lakhani is a faculty fellow from just across the Charles River at Harvard
Business School. Karim's research centers on the emergence of open source
software communities, their unique innovation, and product development models.
Renee
Lloyd, Clinical Fellow and Assistant Director of the Berkman Clinical Program in
Cyberlaw, has a rich background in licensing, transactional, and technology law
in two major law firms, in-house as senior corporate counsel at RSA Security,
and as associate director of technology transactions at Harvard's Office of
Technology Development.
David
Russcol, a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, will be working
on both interoperability and citizen media issues during his time at the Berkman
Center.
Dena
Sacco has been a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School since 2005, teaching in
the First Year Legal Research and Writing program and in the Graduate Program.
Before teaching, Dena served as Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice and
then for six years as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office in
Boston, where she specialized in child exploitation cases. She brings her
extensive experience to help direct the Berkman Clinical Program in Cyberlaw.
Pam
Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at the UC
Berkeley School of Law - Boalt Hall, director of the Berkeley Center for Law
& Technology, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. In addition to
her course instruction on copyright and copyright reform, she will also be a
faculty fellow at the Berkman Center.
Eric von
Hippel is T. Wilson Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management
and recently authored the acclaimed Democratizing Innovation. As a faculty
fellow he will focus on how government policies can or should be modified to
support the innovation enabled by the Internet.
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About
the Berkman Center: The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law
School is proud to celebrate its tenth year as a research program founded to
explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.
Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman,
the Center is now home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff,
and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections
between cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.
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