Jonathan Askin

Biography

Professor Askin is the Founder/Director of the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic (BLIP), the Faculty Chair and Innovation Catalyst for the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE), and the Founder of the Brooklyn Justice Lab. He founded the BLIP Clinic when he joined Brooklyn Law School in 2008. Professor Askin’s teaching and activities have focused on using new technology to advance social, economic, and environmental justice and morphing the law to better suit the needs of society and next-generation ventures in the digital age.

Professor Askin is also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Codex Affiliated Faculty at Stanford Law School. He 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. He 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. He is an honors grad of both Harvard College and Rutgers Law School, where he was Notes and Comments Editor for the Rutgers Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Robert Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court and practiced as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell and as a Deputy Public Advocate for the State of New Jersey.

He has served as a board member to many industry groups, including the Universal Service Administrative Company, the North American Numbering Counsel, and the New York Chapter of the Internet Society, and has served as Chair of the Voice on the Net Coalition, as executive director of the Video on the Net Alliance, as president and founder of the Global IP Alliance, and as inaugural Chair of the CyberSpace Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association. He is a frequent commenter in the media about Internet, communications, and technology-related issues.

Professor Askin is a sought-after expert in the field of Internet law. He is actively involved in developing Brooklyn as a leading 21st century tech hub for innovative start-ups. Over the years, he has provided legal and policy counsel and strategic advice for companies, non-profits, and public interest organizations that focus on building and developing Internet and technology-oriented enterprises and startups.