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Biography
Jonathan Askin is a professor at Brooklyn Law School, focusing on technology, telecommunications, and entrepreneurial law and policy. He is the Founder of the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic, which provides full service, pro bono, legal support for bootstrapped entrepreneurs, startups, innovators, and organizations, typically exploring ventures and issues the law has not anticipated. He is also the Faculty Chair and Innovation Catalyst for the Brooklyn Law Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship and the founder of the Brooklyn Law School Justice Lab. Jonathan has served as a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, a Fulbright Scholar with the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School, and Founder/Advisor to iLINC, a network of legal support clinics for the European startup community. Jonathan chaired the Internet Governance Working Group for the Obama ’08 Presidential Campaign, served on the Biden ’20 Presidential Campaign Technology Committee and on the Eric Adams ’21 Mayoral Campaign Tech Committee, as well as serving as lead counsel and on the boards of many communications and Internet ventures, industry associations, and consumer advocacy groups. Jonathan is an honors grad of both Harvard College and Rutgers Law School.