Professor of Law
Wayne State University
(313 577-3942)
In Fall 2012, Jon is teaching Constitutional Law II and The Law in Cyberspace.
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 Right to be Taken Seriously, 67 U. Miami L. Rev. – (forthcoming 2012)
Non-State Actors and Global Informal Governance: The Case of ICANN, in International Handbook on Informal Governance (Thomas Christiansen & Christine Neuhold eds. 2012)
Hard to BELIEVE: The High Cost of a Biometric ID Card (February 2012) (with A. Michael Froomkin), a Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy Research Brief
Governments, privatization and 'privatization': ICANN and the GAC, 18 Mich. Telecom. & Tech. L. Rev. 189 (2011)
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).