This fall, he co-authored a report on Google’s censorship in France and Germany with Assistant Professor of Law Jonathan Zittrain, whom he met at the Berkman Center.

He’s also a running fanatic, who has gone running every day of his Harvard career, regardless of the weather.

Despite his complaints about the music scene in Boston, Edelman—who reluctantly admits to enjoying heavy metal as well as punk—also goes to the occasional rock show, particularly at T.T. The Bears, a club in Central Square.

He says he sleeps “eight hours of night, unnegotiably.”

“I try to keep everything on schedule,” Edelman says.

Although he admits enjoying all the media attention he’s been getting over the past few years, he says that it isn’t his goal.

“It’s nice to see your picture in the paper, but its not a reason to get up in the morning,” he says. “My goal with media attention has been not just to see my name in lights, but to explain to the public a set of topics of interest and concern.”

Despite his unusually prominent and successful career to date in Internet law—according to the Wall Street Journal, Edelman pulled down a six-figure salary last year with his consulting work— he says he’s not sure what he wants to do with his life.

“I’m concerned I appeared so certain,” he says.

He says he’s considering careers in law, teaching and research.

“Certainly I can imagine myself as an economist, though its not the most likely outcome,” he says.

Going Home

Monday’s hearing didn’t end as well as Edelman and his lawyers had hoped.

The judge finished by saying that he was inclined to dismiss, which would mean an end to Edelman’s suit, and to some, including Edelman, a blow to free speech on the Internet.

“That was rough,” Edelman says after the judge left the court room.