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.