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10 Cyber Lawyers Around the World
No. 1
David R. Johnson
David R. Johnson is a lawyer specializing in computer
communications. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology and a former chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Johnson graduated from Yale College with a B.A. summa
cum laude in 1967. He completed a year of postgraduate study at University
College, Oxford in 1968, and earned a J.D.from Yale Law School in 1972. For a
year following graduation Johnson clerked for the Honorable Malcolm R. Wilkey
of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Johnson joined Washington, D.C. law firm Wilmer,
Cutler & Pickering in 1973, and became a partner in 1980. His practice
focused primarily on the emerging area of electronic commerce, including
counseling on issues relating to privacy, domain names and Internet governance
issues, jurisdiction, copyright, taxation, electronic contracting, encryption,
defamation, ISP and OSP liability, regulation, and other intellectual property
matters.
Johnson helped to write the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act (1986) Johnson was active in the introduction of
personal computers in law practice, acting as President and CEO of Counsel
Connect, a system connecting corporate counsel and outside law firms, and
serving the Board of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
and as a Trustee of the National Center for Automated Information Research
(NCAIR).
In October 1993, coincidental with the move of its
main offices from Cambridge, Massachusetts to D.C., Johnson became a director
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[2] In February 2005, while serving as
the organization's Senior Policy Fellow, Johnson replaced founder Mitch Kapor as
Chairman of the EFF Board.
In the early 2000s, along with Post, Johnson was
active in the re-organization of ICANN - penning several critical papers with
Susan P. Crawford. In 2006 he collaborated with Crawford in the establishment
of OneWebDay.
From 2004-2009 Johnson held the post of Visiting
Professor at New York Law School. In May 2009 he commenced a one year Senior
Fellowship with the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Writings
• Law
and Borders - The Rise of Law in Cyberspace co-authored with David G. Post, 48
Stanford Law Review 1367 (May 1996) (1997 McGannon Award)
• The
Life of the Law Online 51 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 956 (2007) or First Monday, Issue
11-2.
• THE
ACCOUNTABLE NET:PEER PRODUCTION OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE w/ Susan P. Crawford,
John G. Palfrey, Jr. (Aspen Institute) 2004
No. 2
Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig is the Director of the Edmond J.
Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a Professor of
Law at Harvard Law School.
Prior to returning to Harvard, Lessig was a
Professor of Law at Stanford Law School (where he was the founder of Stanford's
Center for Internet and Society), Harvard Law School (1997-2000), and the
University of Chicago Law School. Lessig clerked for Judge Richard Posner on
the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United
States Supreme Court.
His current academic work addresses the question of
"institutional corruption" roughly, influences within an economy of
influence that weaken the effectiveness of an institution or weaken public
trust. His current work at the EJ Safra Lab oversees a 5-years research project
addressing institutional corruption in a number of institutional contexts.
Lessig has won numerous awards, including the Free
Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's
Top 50 Visionaries. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Lessig serves on the boards of Creative Commons,
MapLight, Brave New Film Foundation, Change Congress, The American Academy,
Berlin, Freedom House, and iCommons.org. He is on the advisory board of the
Sunlight Foundation. He has previously served on the boards of the Free
Software Foundation, the Software Freedom Law Center, Electronic Frontier
Foundation, the Public Library of Science, Free Press, and Public Knowledge.
Lessig was also a columnist for Wired, Red Herring, and the Industry Standard.
Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in
management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from
Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. He has received honorary degrees from The
University of Amsterdam, Athabasca University, and The Georgian-American
University.
Code is law
In computer science, "code" typically
refers to the text of a computer program (the source code). In law,
"code" can refer to the texts that constitute statutory law. In his
book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig explores the ways in which code
in both senses can be instruments for social control, leading to his dictum
that "Code is the law."
Legislative reform
Despite presenting an anti-regulatory standpoint in
many fora, Lessig still sees the need for legislative enforcement of copyright.
He has called for limiting copyright terms for creative professionals to five
years but believes that introducing the bureaucratic procedure needed to renew
trademarks, by making copyright need to be renewed for up to 75 years after
this five-year term, would mean that creative professionals' work, many of the
independent, would become more easily and quickly available.
Free Culture
In 2002, Lessig received the Award for the
Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and on
March 28, 2004 he was elected to the FSF's Board of Directors. In 2006, Lessig
was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lessig is also a
well-known critic of copyright term extensions.
He proposed the concept of "Free Culture".
He also supports free software and open spectrum. At his Free Culture keynote
at theO'Reilly Open Source Convention 2002, half of his speech was about
software patents, which he views as a rising threat to both free/open source
software and innovation.
In March 2006, Lessig joined the board of advisors
of the Digital Universe project. A few months later, Lessig gave a talk on the
ethics of the Free Culture Movement at the 2006 Wikimania conference.
Lessig claimed in 2009 that, because 70% of young
people obtain digital information from illegal sources, the law should be
changed.
Net neutrality
Lessig has long been known to be a supporter of Net
Neutrality. In 2006, he testified before the US Senate that he believed
Congress should ratify Michael Powell's four Internet freedoms and add a
restriction to access-tiering, i.e. he does not believe content providers
should be charged different amounts. The reason is that the Internet, under the
neutral end-to-end design is an invaluable platform for innovation, and the
economic benefit of innovation would be threatened if large corporations could
purchase faster service to the detriment of newer companies with less capital.
However, Lessig has supported the idea of allowing ISPs to give consumers the
option of different tiers of service at different prices. He was reported on
CBC News as saying that he has always been in favour of allowing internet
providers to charge differently for consumer access at different speeds. He
said, "Now, no doubt, my position might be wrong. Some friends in the network
neutrality movement as well as some scholars believe it is wrong - that it
doesn't go far enough. But the suggestion that the position is 'recent' is
baseless. If I'm wrong, I've always been wrong."
Combating sexual abuse
In May 2005, it was revealed that Lessig had
experienced sexual abuse by the director at the American Boychoir School which
he had attended as an adolescent. Lessig reached a settlement with the school
in the past, under confidential terms. He revealed his experiences in the course
of representing another student victim, John Hardwicke, in court. In August
2006, he succeeded in persuading the New Jersey Supreme Court to restrict the
scope of immunity radically, which had protected nonprofits that failed to
prevent sexual abuse from legal liability.
No. 3
Steve Chabinsky
Steven
Chabinsky served as Deputy Assistant Director and as the highest-ranking
civilian position in the FBI's Cyber Division.
In that capacity, he helped oversee all FBI investigative strategies,
intelligence analysis, policy development, and major outreach efforts that
focused on protecting the United States from cyber attack, cyber espionage,
online child exploitation, and Internet fraud.
For over ten years, Mr. Chabinsky helped shape and draft many of the
most significant US national cyber and infrastructure protection strategies, including the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the National Strategy to Secure
Cyberspace of 2003 and, in 2008, National Security Presidential Directive 54,
which includes the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.
No. 4
Pavan Duggal
Pavan Duggal is one of the pioneers in the field of
Cyberlaw and is Asia's leading authority on Cyberlaw. He is a practicing
Advocate, Supreme Court of India and a Cyberlaw Consultant. He is the President
of Cyberlaws.Net, The Cyberlaw Consultancy which is Internet's unique and first-ever consultancy dedicated exclusively to the new field of Cyberlaw.
He is the Founder President of Cyberlaw Asia, Asia’s
pioneering organization committed to the passing of dynamic Cyberlaws in the
Asian continent. Cyberlaw Asia is engaged in the process of creating greater
awareness about Cyberlaws in different countries of Asia.
Pavan has been associated with UNESCO on Ethical,
Legal, and Societal Challenges of Cyberspace in Asia and the Pacific. He is the
consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (UNESCAP) on the Asia Pacific Conference on Cybercrime and Information
Security 2002.
He is a Member of Nominating Committee of The Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) . He is also a member of the
Membership Advisory Committee and Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF)
of ICANN and is involved in the legal issues of At Large Membership of this
global body.
He is a Member of the Public Interest
Registry’s.Org Advisory Council .
Pavan is doing a lot of work in the area of Intellectual property rights
in the electronic medium and in cyberspace. He is a member of the World
Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Centre's Panel of
Neutrals. He has acted as an arbitrator in various domain name disputes of the
World Intellectual Property Organization.
Pavan is a member of AFACT Legal Working Group of
UN/CEFACT.
Pavan has vetted and reviewed the e-primer on
Cyberlaw prepared by e-Asean Task Force as an expert authority.
He is the Cyberlaw correspondent for the Global
Legal Publication JURIST: The Legal Education Network.
He is advising the Controller of Certifying
Authorities, Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India on issues
concerning the Indian Cyberlaw namely, The Information Technology Act,
2000. He is also a Member of the IT
Act Legal Advisory Group constituted by the Controller of Certifying
Authorities.
Pavan has also the credit of having done pioneering
work in the field of Convergence Law. Pavan Duggal has testified before the
Indian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, on the
Communication Convergence Bill, 2001.
Pavan is the Founder President of Cyberlaw India.
He has also founded The Cyberlaw Association. He is the Founder of
Cyberarbitration, an online system of alternative dispute resolution.
Being a prolific writer, he has authored three
books entitled " Cyberlaw in India ", " Cyberlaw The Indian
Perspective " and " Indian Convergence Law " . Pavan writes
regularly, inter-alia amongst others, every Sunday his Cyberlaw column "
Brief Cases " in The Economic Times.
He has been invited as a distinguished speaker on
various issues of Cyberlaw at numerous International Internet Fora, conferences
and exhibitions like India Internet World, 1998, 1999 , 2000 & 2001 at New
Delhi; E-biz-2000, E-BizIndia-2000, E-Governance Conference; Apricot 1999 at
Singapore; and Regional Meeting of Infoethics (UNESCO), 2000 at Beijing.
Pavan has been invited as a speaker on Cyber
Terrorism at the 11th Annual AMIC conference in Perth, Australia. He was also a plenary speaker at the Regional
Seminar on the Root Causes of Terrorism and the Role of Youth organized by the
World Youth Foundation on the subject of Cybercrime and Cyber Terrorism. He was invited by the Mauritian Management
Association to conduct the first of its kind seminar on Cyberlaw in Mauritius
in August 2002.
Achievements [edit]
He has been a member of numbers of committees namely:
• The
ICANN Nominating Committee representing the Asia Pacific region, 2003 and
2004.[3]
• Membership
Advisory Committee of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN).[4]
No. 5
Parry Aftab
Parry Aftab is an American lawyer specializing in
Internet privacy and security law, and is considered "one of the founders
of the field of cyberlaw". She is the Executive Director of
WiredSafety.org, a volunteer organization dedicated to online safety. She was
featured in Chris Hansen's book, To Catch a Predator. She created the
StopCyberbullying Coalition to help address cyberbullying and digital abuse
issues.
She was appointed to the federal NTIA Online Safety
and Technology Working Group (OSTWG) and the Berkman Center's Internet Safety
Technical Task Force (ISTTF). Facebook appointed her to its Safety Advisory
Board. She advises MTV as well.
.
Aftab assisted the UN at its recent Cyberhate
Conference. Aftab was one of 24 experts and industry leaders appointed to the
Congressionally created NTIA Online Safety and Technology Working Group (OSTWG)
in 2009. She was one of the 29 members of the Berkman Center's Internet Safety
Technical Task Force (ISTTF). On April 15, 2009 Parry joined Diane Sawyer in
the first town meeting on morning TV, on the topic of sexting. She keynoted the
Children and ICT event held in Gijón, Spain as part of the EU Safer Internet
initiative.
In 2009, Parry Aftab created the StopCyberbullying
Coalition to help address cyberbullying and digital abuse issues. The
StopCyberbullying Coalition members include Facebook, AOL, Microsoft,
Build-A-Bear, Procter & Gamble, Google, Yahoo!, Disney, Webkinz, the Girl
Scouts of the USA, Buzz Marketing Group, MTV and others. Her work on sexting
issues began in 1998 when a teenaged girl sent nude and sexual videos to a boy
she liked. She is working with the families of the girls who took their own
lives after their sexting images were used to harass them and were broadcast to
their communities.
Facebook appointed Aftab to its Safety Advisory
Board. She advises MTV as well.
Parry Aftab told the Minnesota School Board
Association at their annual meeting in August 2009 that they need to address
cyberbullying. She warned that they have to adopt a cell phone policy and
enforce it.
Following September 11, Parry Aftab's charity,
WiredSafety, helped protect the families of those killed at the World Trade
Center. She worked to help children worldwide get past the fear they felt
following the attacks. She found a rescue worker who had worked at Ground Zero
with his search and rescue dog, Servous. To help children understand the rescue
dogs issue better, she wrote a children's story published on WiredKids.org.
Awards and honors
In June 2009, Aftab contributed to the United
Nations "2009 Unlearning Intolerance Seminar" entitled,
"Cyberhate: Danger in Cyber Space."
In November 2010, "Mrs. Aftab [became] the 2010
New Jersey recipient of the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award
(DCLA)"
Works
• Child
Abuse on the Internet. Ending the Silence, Carlos A. Arnaldo, Ed., Chapter 21:
"The Technical Response: Blocking, Filtering and Rating the
Internet", pp. 135–140 (2001)ISBN 92-3-103728-5 ISBN 978-9231037283
• Inocencia
en Peligro : Conviva con sus Hijos y Protéjalos Cuando Naveguen por Internet
(2001) ISBN 970-10-3297-7 ISBN 978-9701032978
• The
Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (1999) ISBN
0-07-135752-1 ISBN 978-0071357524
• Parents
Guide to the Internet: And How to Protect Your Children in Cyberspace (1997)
ISBN 0-9660491-0-1 ISBN 978-0966049107
• Servous
The Rescue Dog (online, undated)[14]
No. 6
S J Tubrazy
S J Tubrazy ‘Shahid Jamal Tubrazy’ is a practicing
lawyer in banking recovery laws and cyber laws from Pakistan. He is the managing
partner of sjtubrazy & co a law firm locates in Lahore Pakistan. He is a professor of cyber laws in reputed law colleges. He has conducted various
seminars liaison with FIA (NR3C) a law federal enforcement agency in Pakistan. He
is the pioneer to lay down the basic foundation of cyber jurisprudence’ and also
interprets it exhaustively.
Works / Publication
Validated Cyber Law Definitions by SJTubrazy
Cyber Jurisprudence, Quantum Computing, Cyberspace,
Cyber lawyer, Cyberwill, Digital Afterlife , Digital Death, Digital
Inheritance, Digital Will, Digital Property, Digital Assets, Clouding
computing, SJ Tubrazy lawyer, cyber advocate, internet lawyer, internet
advocate, internet lawyer, computer lawyer, Pakistan, Digital Worth, Digital
Ownership, Online Legacy, Digital Vault, Digital Storage, Internet Transfer,
Web Legacy, Web Death, Web Storage, Web Ownership, Web Footprint, Virtual
Death, Virtual Property, Virtual Identity
Books
1. Manual of Cyber Laws in Pakistan. (2013-14)
2. The Investigation for Fair Trial Act 2013.
(2013-14)
3. Electronic Transaction laws in PakistanPractice
and Procedure ( 2013-14)
4. Electronic Fund Transfers laws in
Pakistan, Practice, and Procedure Up to Date Commentary ( 2013-2014)
5. Uniform Domain Name Disputes Resolution Policy
(Comprehensive Commentary with relevant WIPO decisions) (2013-14)
6. Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance (commentary)
(2007-08)
7. Uniform Domain Name Disputes Resolution Policy (Commentary
with WIPO decisions) (2006-07)
Awards
1. Awards of
Merits (PLC+FIA)
Concepts
1. Cyber Jurisprudence
2. Cyber Execution.
Wok for Public Interest
1. Writ Petition for enforcement of Section 12 of
Electronic Ordinance 2002
2. Case Against Google & Bing for search results
pornographic images for non-pornographic terms 'HOT'
No. 7
John P. Beardwood
John Beardwood is a partner of the firm, engaged in
a corporate/commercial practice, with an emphasis on outsourcing and
procurement, technology, and privacy law-related matters. John is regularly
listed among the world's preeminent internet and e-commerce lawyers in Who's Who
Legal - The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers where, in addition to
being referred to as "an authority on outsourcing" in the guide to
Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers, he is identified as being both one of the two
most highly nominated Canadian lawyers in the guide, and one of the ten
"most highly regarded individuals" globally; and is also included as
a leading lawyer in the Internet & e-Commerce chapter of Who's Who Legal:
Canada 2010. He is listed in Chambers Global – The World's Leading Lawyers for
Business 2010, for Information Technology. He is consistently recognized in The
Best Lawyers in Canada for information technology law, and highly recommended
as an outsourcing practitioner in thePLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook and in the PLC
Outsourcing Handbook. His biography is included in the Canadian Who's Who.
John is Co-Chair of the National Technology and
Intellectual Property Practice Group; Co-Chair of the National Outsourcing
Practice Group; and Vice-Chair of the Privacy and Information Protection
Practice Group.
Honours and Awards
• Chambers
Global 2011-2013 for Information Technology
• Canadian
Legal Lexpert Directory 2010-2011 for Computer & IT Law
• Who's
Who Legal Guide to Internet & e-Commerce Lawyers as being one of the ten
"most highly regarded individuals" globally
• Practical
Law Company's Cross-border Outsourcing Handbook 2010 and Which Lawyer? Yearbook
2008-2009 as "Highly Recommended" for Outsourcing (Canada)
• International
Who's Who of Internet and e-Commerce Lawyers in 2008-2009
• Best
Lawyers in Canada 2008-2013 for Information Technology Law
• National
Post's "Best Lawyers in Canada" 2007-2008 for IT law
No. 8
William "Terry" W. Fisher
In his book Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and
the Future of Entertainment (Stanford University Press 2004), Fisher proposes
replacing much of copyright and digital rights management with a
government-administered reward system. Under such a scheme, movies and songs
would be legal to download. Authors and artists would receive compensation from
the government based on how often their works were read, watched, or listened
to. The system would be funded by taxes.
Fisher is one of the founders of Noank Media, a
private enterprise similar in many ways to the proposal of Promises to Keep.
Noank licenses and distributes digital content by collecting blanket-license
revenues from internet services providers and distributing revenues to authors
and artists based on the size of their audience.
Fisher was among the lawyers, along with his
colleague John Palfrey and the law firm of Jones Day, who represented Shepard
Fairey, pro bono, in his lawsuit against the Associated Press related to the
iconic Hope poster.[3]
An alumnus of Amherst College, Fisher received a law
degree and a Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard
University. He was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall.
Prof. Fisher is currently teaching an online version
of the Copyright law course on edX to a group of selected students.
No. 9
MARVIN AMMORI
Marvin Ammori is a leading First Amendment lawyer
and Internet policy, expert. He was instrumental to the adoption of network
neutrality rules in the US and abroad–having been perhaps the nation’s leading
legal advocate advancing network neutrality–and also instrumental to the defeat
of the SOPA and PIPA copyright/censorship bills.
He is a Legal
Fellow with the New America Foundation Open Technology Initiative and an
Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society. He
also heads a law firm and consulting
practice, the Ammori Group, whose clients include leading Internet companies and nonprofit organizations.
The Ammori Group’s site includes a longer bio and some kind words about his
work.
Before being a law professor, he was a leading
advocate for civil liberties and consumer rights as the head lawyer of Free
Press. In that capacity, and as the lead lawyer on the seminal
Comcast/BitTorrent case, he was perhaps the nation’s leading lawyer on network
neutrality, the nation’s most debated Internet policy issue, and amongst the
nation’s most important recent policy debates. During 2007 and 2008, he was a
technology policy advisor to the Obama campaign and to the Presidential
Transition.
He is also a
Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Council’s
Term Member Advisory Committee. He is an Affiliate Fellow of the Yale
Information Society Project, an advisor to the University of Michigan’s
Michigan in Washington Program, and collaborates with Stanford’s Center for
International Security and Cooperation.
He graduated from Harvard Law School, taught on
fellowships at Yale and Georgetown law schools, and earned his undergraduate
degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He loves ice cream.
Works / Publications
Can the FTC Save Uber?
Author(s): Marvin Ammori
Taxi commissions are crushing disruptive
transportation apps. Marvin Ammori discusses in this Slate article. Read more »
about Can the FTC Save Uber?
The Conversation: Time to Mobilize for Cyberwar
Author(s): Marvin Ammori
PROTECT IP Act (S.968) and Stop Online Privacy Act
(H.R.3261)
Author(s): Marvin Ammori
First Amendment Architecture
Author(s): Marvin Ammori
No. 10
DAVID LEVINE
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David Levine is an Assistant Professor of Law at
Elon University School of Law and an Affiliate Scholar at the Center for
Internet and Society (CIS). Aside from the copyright and fair use areas for
which CIS has become known, Dave's research interests include the operation of
intellectual property law at the intersection of the technology field and
public life, intellectual property's impact on transparency, and the impact of
copyright law in the arts. Currently, Dave is researching the use of trade
secrecy's inevitable disclosure doctrine and intellectual property law's impact
on public transparency.
In addition to the publications below, Dave has been
quoted in articles in newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, and appeared
on CNBC, spoken at several intellectual properties and cyber law conferences, and
testified before the Library of Congress's National Recording Preservation
Board. Dave also hosts an interview talk show on KZSU-FM (Stanford), 90.1 on
the dial, entitled "Hearsay Culture" where he interviews people
involved with technology. The show airs from 5 to 6 PM PST on Wednesdays, and
is available by live stream here, by iTunes podcast here, on CIS' podcast feed
here, or on the Hearsay Culture website feed.
After earning a bachelor of science degree from
Cornell University’s New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations in
1994, Dave was the Legislative Aide for the Hon. Sandy Galef, New York State Assemblywoman;
additionally, he was the volunteer Field Director for the New York State
chapter of the Concord Coalition, with which he remains involved. During law
school, Dave was a summer extern for the Hon. Adlai S. Hardin, United States
Bankruptcy Judge in the Southern District of New York.
Upon graduating from Case Western Reserve University
School of Law, Dave practiced law in Manhattan as an associate in the
litigation departments of Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP (formerly Lane
& Mittendorf LLP) and thereafter Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn LLP. At
Pryor Cashman, Dave worked on a variety of cases in the intellectual property
and technology litigation fields for many entertainment and fashion industry
clients. Dave was an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the New York City Law
Department, Office of the Corporation Counsel. In 2005-2007.
Works / Publications.
Law professors challenge secrecy in fracking
Author(s): David Levine
Publication Date: April 2, 2013
The Social Layer of Freedom of Information Law
Author(s): David Levine.
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