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 practicing lawyer at the Washington DC law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; and a law clerk for Judge, and then 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; Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (West, 5th 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 Stanford Law Review article (“Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace,”), co‐authored with David Johnson, is widely considered one of cyberspace law’s foundational documents, and was recently identified as the second‐most cited intellectual property law review article of all time.