Christopher Lydon, who resigned as host of the famous Boston public radio program "Connection" over a contract dispute, has found a new home at Harvard Law School (HLS).

Lydon accepted an offer from Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson '60 for space in the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at HLS.

The Berkman Center, which is currently providing Lydon and his staff with telephones and

computers, is home to many of Harvard's leading cyberspace experts, and conducts research on issues ranging from Internet privacy rights to academic uses of the Web.

Lydon says he has been friends with Nesson, the faculty director of the Berkman Center, for many years, and they have both been interested in Internet issues.

"[Nesson] said, 'Why don't you come over here, and think about what we think about all the time?'" Lydon says. "We puzzle about a lot of the same things."

Nesson says the Berkman Center had been interested in studying possibilities for online discussion software, a subject that also interested Lydon, who recently began broadcasting the "Connection"-a show that interviews its guests on cultural and political issues, among others-on the Web.

"When he went on the loose, we were interested in having him do a study group with Berkman Center students," Nesson says. "He's been scrambling around doing one thing or another trying to keep himself alive."