Faculty Profile: Jeffrey Aresty

Jeffrey M. Aresty is based in Houston, Texas, and is an international business and e-commerce lawyer who has led the non-profit Internet Bar Organization (IBO) since 2005. IBO’s mission is to promote and shape the emerging online justice community by using technology and the Rule of Law to promote human rights and alleviate poverty. 

 

As president of Internet Bar Organization (IBO), he co-founded the PeaceTones Initiative as its signature project to showcase how technology can increase access to justice across borders.  PeaceTones empowers musicians from the developing world to reach global markets. (www.peacetones.org); Currently, IBO is working with the Texas Supreme Court, TX Office of Court Administration, TX Judicial Council, Texas Legal Services Center, and the Legal Services Corporation to kick start a movement to build innovative justice applications to improve the accessibility of legal services for the most vulnerable in our society (www.techforjustice.org). 

 

Jeff has co-authored chapters on technology and law topics in several books from 2006-2012 including several chapters in the casebook, Cyberlaw: Text and Cases (2011, SouthWestern Cengage Learning), a chapter on mobile technology and the rule of law in Mobile Technologies for Conflict Management (2011, Springer) and a chapter on “Online Dispute Resolution and Justice” in Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice (2012, Eleven Publishing).  

 

Jeff has also taught (both face to face and online) several undergraduate courses on Global Cyberlaw, Law and the World Wide Web, and International Business Transactions at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

 

Mr. Aresty is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. In addition to his law degree (Boston University Law, 1976), he also earned masters of laws degrees in taxation (1979) and international banking (1993) from Boston University School of Law, and has completed training as an international commercial arbitrator and as a certified mediator in Texas.