Berkman Center for Internet & Society

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The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School that focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. As of May 15, 2008 the Center was elevated to an interfaculty initiative of Harvard University.^[1] The Center sponsors conferences, visiting lecturers, and residential fellows. Members of the Center do research and write books, articles, weblogs with RSS 2.0 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 project, and is a co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative. Other projects include Global Voices Online.

Fellows have included David Weinberger; Ethan Zuckerman; Dave Winer; Jimmy Wales^[2]; Rebecca MacKinnon; John Perry Barlow; Wendy Seltzer; James F. Moore; John Clippinger and Doc Searls.

Faculty have included Charles Nesson, Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain, William "Terry" Fisher, John Palfrey, and Yochai Benkler.