Christopher Yoo
John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science; Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition at Annenberg School for Communication
John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science; Founding Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition at University of Pennsylvania Law School
Schools
- Annenberg School for Communication
- University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Annenberg School for Communication
Christopher Yoo has emerged as one of the nation’s leading authorities on law and technology. Recognized as one of the most cited scholars in administrative and regulatory law as well as intellectual property, his major research projects include studying innovative ways to connect more people to the Internet; using technological principles to inform how the law can promote optimal interoperability; protecting privacy and security for autonomous vehicles, medical devices, and the Internet’s routing architecture; comparing antitrust enforcement practices in China, Europe, and the U.S.; copyright theory; and network neutrality. Continue reading…
Expertise
- Communications Law
- Antitrust
- Intellectual Property
- Copyright
- Privacy Law
- Mass Media Law
- Law and Technology
- Government Regulation
- Regulated Industries
- Electronic Commerce
- Information Law
- Presidential Power
- Separation of Powers
- Constitutional Law
- First Amendment
- Free Speech
- Patent Law
- Law of War
Publications Working Papers Research Areas Positions Courses
Books
REGULATING THE CLOUD: POLICY FOR COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE (Christopher S. Yoo & Jean-Francois Blanchette eds., MIT Press 2015).
THE DYNAMIC INTERNET: HOW TECHNOLOGY, USERS, AND BUSINESS ARE TRANSFORMING THE NETWORK (AEI Press 2012).
CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: COPYRIGHT, 2 vols. (Christopher S. Yoo ed., Edward Elgar 2011).
NETWORKS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ECONOMICS AND LAW (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009) (with Daniel F. Spulber).
THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE: PRESIDENTIAL POWER FROM WASHINGTON TO BUSH (Yale Univ. Press 2008) (with Steven G. Calabresi).
Articles and Book Chapters
Common Carriage’s Domain, 34 YALE J. ON REG. 991 (2018).
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Net Uniformity: Zero Rating and Nondiscrimination, 50 REV. INDUS. ORG. 509 (2017).
Wireless Networks: Technological Challenges and Policy Implications, 31 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1409 (2017).
An Unsung Success Story: A Forty-Year Retrospective on U.S. Communications Policy, 41 TELECOMM. POL'Y 891 (2017).
Presidential Signing Statements: A New Perspective, 164 U. PA. L. REV. 1801 (2016).
Modularity Theory and Internet Policy, 2016 U. ILL. L. REV. 1.
Open Source, Modular Platforms, and the Challenge of Fragmentation, 1 CRITERION J. ON INNOVATION 619 (2016).
Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and the Theory of Optimal Interoperability, 14 COLO. TECH. L.J. 87 (2015).
Cyber Espionage or Cyberwar?: International Law, Domestic Law, and Self-Protective Measures, in CYBERWAR: LETHICS FOR VIRTUAL CONFLICTS (Jens David Ohlin, Kevin Govern, & Claire Finkelstein eds., Oxford University Press 2015).
Technological Determinism and Its Discontents, 127 HARV. L. REV. 914 (2014) (book review).
The Wires Go to War: The U.S. Experiment with Government Ownership of the Telephone System During World War I, 91 TEX. L. REV. 983 (2013) (with Michael A. Janson).
Protocol Layering and Internet Policy, 161 U. PA. L. REV. 1707 (2013).
Are Those Who Ignore History Doomed to Repeat It?, 78 U. CHI. L. REV. 1627 (2011) (book review) (with Peter Decherney & Nathan Ensmenger).
Nonrivalry and Price Discrimination in Copyright Economics, 157 U. PA. L. REV. 1801 (2009) (with John P. Conley).
Mandating Access to Telecom and the Internet: The Hidden Side of Trinko, 106 COLUM. L. REV. 1822 (2007) (with Daniel F. Spulber).
Copyright and Public Good Economics: A Misunderstood Relation, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 635 (2007).
Network Neutrality and the Economics of Congestion, 94 GEO. L.J. 1847 (2006).
Beyond Network Neutrality, 19 HARV. J.L. & TECH. 1 (2005).
Copyright and Product Differentiation, 79 N.Y.U. L. REV. 212 (2004).
Paul Baran, Network Theory, and the Past, Present, and Future of Internet, 17 COLO. TECH. L.J. (forthcoming 2019). (forthcoming)
Working Papers
Procedural Fairness in Antitrust Enforcement: The U.S. Perspective, in ANTITRUST PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS (D. Daniel Sokol & Andrew Guzman eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming 2019) (with Hendrik M. Wendland). (forthcoming)
Copyright and Personhood Revisited, 2019 U. ILL. L. REV. (forthcoming) The Transformation of Transformative Use, 1 J.L. & INNOVATION (forthcoming 2019). (forthcoming)
James Wilson as the Architect of the American Presidency, 16 GEO. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y (forthcoming 2019). (forthcoming)
Paul Baran, Network Theory, and the Past, Present, and Future of Internet, 17 COLO. TECH. L.J. (forthcoming 2019). (forthcoming)
Product Differentiation, in 1 RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (Ben Depoorter & Peter Menell eds., Edward Elgar forthcoming 2019). (forthcoming)
Network Neutrality and 5G, THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET – INNOVATION, INTEGRATION AND SUSTAINABILITY (Guenter Knieps & Volcker Stocker eds., Nomos forthcoming 2018) (with Jesse Lambert). (forthcoming)
Self-Actualization and the Need to Create as a Limit on Copyright, in COMPARATIVE ASPECTS OF LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS IN COPYRIGHT LAW (Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Wee Loon Ng-Loy, & Haochen Sun eds., Cambridge University Press forthcoming 2019). (forthcoming)
Antitrust Enforcement in a Global Context: The U.S. Perspective, in ANTITRUST PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS (D. Daniel Sokol & Andrew Guzman eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming 2019) (with Hendrik M. Wendland) (forthcoming)
U.S. vs. European Broadband Deployment: What Do the Data Say?
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Christopher Yoo has emerged as one of the world’s leading authorities on law and technology. One of the most cited scholars in administrative and regulatory law as well as intellectual property, he has authored five books and over 100 scholarly works.
His major research projects include investigating innovative ways to connect more people to the Internet; comparing antitrust law in China, Europe, and the U.S.; analyzing the technical determinants of optimal interoperability; promoting privacy and security for autonomous vehicles, medical devices, and the Internet’s routing architecture; and studying the regulation of Internet platforms. He has also created innovative joint degree programs designed to produce a new generation of professionals with advanced training in both law and engineering.
He is frequently called to testify before the U.S. Congress, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, foreign governments, and international organizations. He recently served as a member of the Federal Communication Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, the Board of Advisors for the American Law Institute’s Project on Principles of Law for Data Privacy and the Restatement of Principles for a Data Economy, and as co-convener of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum’s Initiative on Connecting and Enabling the Next Billions.
Before entering academia, he served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Honorable A. Raymond Randolph L’69 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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