Brent Jesiek
Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor, Virginia Tech
Ph.D., Virginia Tech

Brent K. Jesiek, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor at Virginia Tech, affiliated with both the Department of Political Science and the Department of Science and Technology in Society. He also manages Tech's Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC). Much of Dr. Jesiek's academic work involves historical, social, and political studies of technology, engineering, and computing.

Wendy Seltzer
Visiting Assistant Professor, Northeastern University Law School
Fellow, Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Founder, Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet & Society
B.A.., Harvard College
J.D., Harvard Law School

Wendy Seltzer is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northeastern University Law School, researching intellectual property, privacy, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats.

She has taught Internet Law, Copyright, and Information Privacy at Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute, teaching a joint course with the Said Business School, Media Strategies for a Networked World. Previously, she was a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.
Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program (Perl and MythTV).

Charles Nesson
William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
B.A., Harvard College
J.D., Harvard Law School

Professor Nesson charted the early field of Internet law in 1997 when he helped found the Berkman Center. Nesson has taught evidence, criminal law, trial law, torts, and ethics for Harvard Law School and continues to incorporate cutting-edge technology into his classes. He graduated from Harvard College in 1960 with a degree in mathematics and received his JD from Harvard Law School in 1963, summa cum laude. Before joining the law school faculty in 1966, Nesson clerked for Justice John Marshall Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court and worked as a special assistant to John Doar in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Professor Nesson is currently leading a project for restorative justice in Jamaica. During the academic year, he teaches courses in Evidence and internet law, and recently began teaching the innovative new class Cyber One: Law in the Court of Public Opinion, which welcomes the participation of the internet community at large. Publications can be found at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/facdir.php?id=48.

Chris Sprigman
Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1993
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1988

Chris Sprigman teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, competition policy, and comparative constitutional law. His scholarship focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies.

Sprigman received his B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He attended the University of Chicago Law School, serving as a Comment Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and graduating with honors in 1993. Following graduation, Sprigman clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Justice Lourens H. W. Ackermann of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Sprigman also taught at the law school of the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

From 1999 to 2001, Sprigman served as Appellate Counsel in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on U.S. v. Microsoft, among other matters. Sprigman then joined the Washington, D.C. office of King & Spalding LLP, where he was elected a partner. In 2003, he left law practice to become a Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School. He joined the Virginia faculty in 2005.

Patricia Aufderheide
Director, American University Center for Social Media
Professor, American University School of Communications
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Center Director Pat Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and the Director of the Center for Social Media there.  She is the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007), The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and of Communications Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press, 1999). She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others. Aufderheide is a prolific cultural journalist, policy analyst, and editor on media and society and has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including a career achievement award in 2006 from the International Documentary Association. Aufderheide serves on the board of directors of Kartemquin Films, a leading independent social documentary production company, and on the editorial boards of a variety of publications, including Communication Law and Policy and In These Times newspaper. She has served on the board of directors of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and on the film advisory board of the National Gallery of Art. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota.

Peter Jaszi
Professor of Law, American University
Director of Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property clinic, American University
Co-Director of the Program on Information Justice and Itellectual Property,
Washington college of Law, American University
B.A., Harvard College
J.D., Harvard Law School

PETER JASZI is a Professor of Law, Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic and Co-Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at Washington College of Law, American University, in Washington, D.C. He received his BA from Harvard College and his JD from Harvard Law School. With Prof. Patricia Aufderheide, he facilitated the 2005 “Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use.”   Prof. Jaszi has testified before Congress on various copyright topics, and written extensively about copyright history and theory.  He is a co-author of a leading textbook, Copyright Law (7th edition, 2006).  In 2007, he received the American Library Association’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award for service to the public interest.  He serves as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.