Derek Bambauer

Derek Bambauer is a resident fellow at the Center. He works on the Internet filtering and Digital Media projects.

Derek graduated from Harvard College with a degree in History and Science. He spent five years with Lotus Development Corporation (now a division of IBM), first as a technical writer in the Lotus Domino group, then as a Web developer who built the original Documentation Library on the Notes.net Web site, and finally as a consultant and systems engineer with Lotus’ consulting branch. His technical specialties included Internet messaging, data backup and recovery, server architecture, and Web development and security. Derek avoided most of the technology sector's downturn by attending Harvard Law School, receiving his J.D. in 2004.

His interests include the evolution of digital media, issues related to Internet messaging such as spam, data persistence, information controls, and the interplay between legal and technical enforcement.

Forthcoming work includes an article on intellectual property rights in developing countries in Information Technologies and International Development and an article on the information problems of spam in the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.