About Me

Peter S. Jenkins is an author, lawyer and a futurist. He is an active member of the State Bar of California. Currently, he is a PhD candidate and a Nathanson Research Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. His dissertation is on Virtual Worlds and International Law. Some of his recent publications are available on the Social Science Research Network. He has been quoted and mentioned in numerous scholarly journals and books on virtual worlds as well as in regular media such as the New York Times. Recently, his paper "Virtual Worlds as a New Game Theoretic Model for International Law: The Case of Bilateral Investment Treaties" was published in the April, 2009 issue of the University of Edinburgh's Script-ed. In 2008, he presented a paper on the convergence of the real and virtual worlds at a conference at the University of Tampere in Finland. He also presented his paper on Virtual Worlds and Game Theory at the GikIII conference at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. In the summer of 2009, he attended the ATLAS Agora at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he presented and discussed the work-in-progress on his dissertation.

His interests include Dr. Hayutman's Virtual Temple Project, Eric Drexler, Second Life, and the singularity.

He is married with a young son and daughter.