Zephyr Teachout

Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Non Resident
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox NR
79 JFK Street
Contact
Email: Zephyr_Teachout@hks.harvard.edu
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Zephyr R. Teachout is Visiting Assistant Professor of  Public Policy. Her teaching interests are election law, federal legislation, the law governing corruption, Internet and politics, comparative law, administrative law, law of democracy and local government..  She clerked for  Chief Judge Edward R. Becker, Third Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals. An internationally recognized expert on the impact of the Internet on electoral politics and government Teachout  has served as the National Director of the Sunlight Foundation, Washington, DC,  has taught at the University of Vermont  and served as Director of Internet Organizing for Dean For America. She was a co-founder and Executive Director of the Fair Trial Initiative in Durham, where she also served as a staff attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation.  Her publications include  Mousepads, Shoeleather and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics (Editor); "How Politicians Can Use Distributive Networks" (New Assignment, November 2006); "Youtube? It’s So Yesterday," (with Tim Wu) (Washington Post, November 2006), and "Powering Up Internet Campaigns," book chapter in Lets Get This Party Started (Rowan and Littlefield, 2005.) She is currently writing about the meaning of corruption in the American constitutional tradition. Teachout holds a BA from Yale University, and an MA and JD from Duke University.

 

Courses

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  • DPI-530M Politics, Money & the Internet