About Me

Peter Jenkins, PhD, is a lawyer who is an expert in virtual worlds, social media, simulations, game theory and international law and relations. While completing his doctorate at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, he taught in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility and was a Research Fellow at the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. He has given lectures at many institutions around the globe including the University of Tampere, the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics & Political Science, the University of Osnabrueck, the University of Toronto and the International Studies Association. He is currently working on a book about using virtual worlds as a game theoretic model for international relations. Some of his recent publications are available on the Social Science Research Network where he is in the top 3% of authors world-wide. 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. Dr. Jenkins is a member of the State Bar of California.

He currently lives in Toronto with his wife and their young son and daughter.