Jonathan I. Ezor is the Director of the Touro Law Center Institute for Business, Law and Technology, and an Assistant Professor of Law. He also serves as Counsel to Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP, a full service business law firm based in Manhattan, and on the IT Advisory Board for the Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University. A technology attorney for more than seventeen years, Professor Ezor has represented advertising agencies, software developers, banks, retailers and Internet service providers as well as traditional firms, and has been in-house counsel to an online retailer, an Internet-based document printing firm and a multinational Web and software development company. He was also named one of Long Island Business News’ “Top 40 Under 40” for 2005, and served as the Reporter for the New York State Bar Association E-Filing Task Force. Author of the free e-book Shooting From the Hip: Managing the Risks of Portable Computing and Smartphones in Your Business (available at http://www.mobilerisk.com) and the Internet law handbook Clicking Through: A Survival Guide for Bringing Your Company Online (Bloomberg Press, 2000) (http://www.clickingthrough.com), coauthor of Producing Web Hits (IDG Books, 1997), and author of an upcoming digital privacy law coursebook from Lexis/Nexis, Professor Ezor has been a guest columnist on legal issues for BusinessWeek Online, as well as having written for the @NY electronic newsletter, and is a frequent blogger on the webOS Nation site as well. He has also written for Business 2.0, Advertising Age (which named him a "Web Warrior" in 1995), Law Technology News, the New York Law Journal, and Infoworld. Professor Ezor is a graduate of Brandeis University (Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa) and Yale Law School. He teaches courses including Cyberlaw, Cybercrime, Licensing Intellectual Property, International Intellectual Property, Privacy in the Digital Age, Negotiable Instruments and Payment Systems, and the Business Technology Law Externship, and established and directed Touro’s first summer law school program in Jerusalem, Israel in 2008.
Articles
Busting Blocks: Revisiting 47 U.S.C. §230 to Address the Lack of Effective Legal Recourse for Wrongful Inclusion in Spam Filters, Richmond Journal of Law and Technology (2011)
This paper discusses the growth and increasing significance of e-mail in the business and personal...
Books
Privacy and Data Protection in Business: Laws and Practices (Sample Chapters) (2012)
In the fields of digital privacy and data protection in the business world, effective compliance...
Shooting from the Hip: Managing the Risks of Portable Computing and Smartphones in Your Business, Scholarly Works (2009)
This e-book was written to be a real-world, practical guide to some of the legal...
Unpublished Papers
Privacy, Transparency & Google's Blurred Glass (2013)
No matter the context or jurisdiction, one concept underlies every view of the best practices...
Streaming While Teaching: The Legality of Using Personal Streaming Video Accounts for the Classroom, ExpressO (2012)
Educators are constantly seeking new sources of relevant material to illustrate doctrinal and practice topics....
Streaming While Teaching: The Legality of Using Personal Streaming Video Accounts for the Classroom (2012)
Educators are constantly seeking new sources of relevant material to illustrate doctrinal and practice topics....
Presentations
Pitfalls and Promises of Social Media and Mobile Lawyering, Oneida County (NY) Bar Association (2012)
Social Media and Legal Ethics, Theodore Roosevelt Inn of Court (2011)
A presentation on the legal issues arising out of attorney use of social media services,...
Other
Decoding Open Source for webOS and Beyond (2011)
An explanation of open source licensing and how it applies to recent decisions by HP...