Professor of Law
Wayne State University
(313 577-3942)
In Winter 2010, Jon will teach Constitutional Law I and The Regulatory State.
Before
coming to Wayne
State in 1988, Jon clerked for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and
Justice Thurgood Marshall, studied Japanese communications law as a
visiting (Fulbright) scholar at the University of Tokyo, and was an
associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner.
Since coming to Wayne, he has spent a year in residence at the Federal
Communications Commission's Office of Plans and Policy, a semester at
Cardozo Law School's Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and
Society, and a year on the civil appellate staff of the U.S. Justice
Department. He chaired a working group created
by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- the
international body seeking to order the domain name system and other
aspects of Internet infrastructure) -- to develop recommendations on
the creation of new Internet top level domains.
Some
selected recent-ish publications
The
End of
Citizenship?, 107 Mich.
L. Rev. 931 (2009).
Tracking RFID, 3 ISJLP 777 (2007-08). A
shorter and earlier version of this article was published in Securing Privacy in the Internet Age
(Anupam Chander et al. eds., Stanford Law Books 2008)
Site Finder and Internet Governance, 1 U. Ottawa L. & Tech. J. 345 (2004).
ICANN, Internet Stability, and New Top Level Domains, in Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects 3 (Lorrie Cranor & Shane Greenstein eds., MIT Press 2002).
Digital TV, Copy Control, and Public Policy, 19 Cardozo Arts. & Ent. L.J. 277 (2002)
Geeks and Greeks, 3 Info 313 (2001)
ICANN and the Problem of Legitimacy, 50 Duke L.J. 187 (2000)
Hardware-Based ID, Rights Management, and Trusted Systems, 52 Stan. L.Rev. 1251 (2000). A shortened and revised version of this article was published in The Commodification of Information 343 (Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Netanel eds., Springer 2003).