Trained originally as a physical anthropologist, Post was one of the first Internet law scholars in the United States.  He has been a member of the faculties of Columbia University (Department of Anthropology) and the law schools at Georgetown, George Mason, and Temple Universities (a position from which he recently retired), a practicing lawyer at the Washington DC law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He is the author of In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (Oxford, 2009), a Jeffersonian perspective on Internet law and policy, and Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (West, 5^th ed. 2017) (with Paul Schiff Berman, Patricia Bellia, and Brett Frischmann), and numerous scholarly articles on intellectual property, the law of cyberspace, and complexity theory. His 1996 article “Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace,” co-authored with David Johnson and published in the Stanford Law Review, is widely considered one of cyberspace law’s foundational documents, and was recently identified as the 2d-most cited intellectual property law review article of all time.

He is currently a Contributor at the Volokh Conspiracy (http://reason.com/volokh), as well as a Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology, an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nexa Center for Internet and Society in Torino, Italy.