Philip J. Weiser

Phil Weiser is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications, and Executive Director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. From June 2011-July 2016, Professor Weiser served as Dean after re-joining the Colorado faculty in June, 2011. From April 2010-June 2011, he served as the Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation to the National Economic Council Director at the White House. From July 2009-April 2010, he served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.

Since first joining the CU faculty in 1999, Professor Weiser has worked to establish a national center of excellence in telecommunications and technology law, founding the Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law and the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship as well as writing and teaching in the areas of competition policy, innovation policy, and Internet policy.  Over the last several years, Weiser has co-authored three books (Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age (MIT Press 2013) (with Jon Nuechterlein), Telecommunications Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press 2012) (With Stuart Benjamin, Howard Shelanski  & James Speta), and The Jury and Democracy:  How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation  (Oxford University Press 2010), written numerous articles (in both law journals and publications such as the Washington Post and Foreign Affairs), and testified before both houses of Congress.  He also remained engaged in public service, arguing a number of pro bono cases before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, co-chairing the Colorado Innovation Council, and serving as the lead agency reviewer for the Federal Trade Commission as part of the 2008 Presidential Transition.

Prior to joining the Colorado Law faculty, Professor Weiser served as senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division at the United States Department of Justice, advising him primarily on telecommunications matters.  Before his appointment at the Justice Department, Weiser served as a law clerk to Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the United States Supreme Court and to Judge David Ebel at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Weiser graduated with high honors from both the New York University School of Law and Swarthmore College.

Visiting Professorships:
New York University, Fall 2008
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Fall 2006
Princeton Law and Public Affairs Program, Fall 2001 & Spring 2002

Published Books:
Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age (MIT Press 2013) (with Jon Nuechterlein).  For an event focused on the book, check here.
Telecommunications Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press 2012) (With Stuart Benjamin, Howard Shelanski  & James Speta).  For the table of contents and chapter one, check here.
The Jury and Democracy:  How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation (with Gastil, Deess, and Simmons) (Oxford University Press 2010)
Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age (MIT Press 2005) (with Jon Nuechterlein). For the table of contents check here; for Chapter One check here; for a paper based on the book check here.

Monographs:
Unlocking Spectrum Value through Improved Allocation, Assignment, and Adjudication of Spectrum Rights (2014) (with Pierre de Vries) (The Brookings Institution).
The Untapped Promise of Wireless Spectrum (The Brookings Institution 2008).
A Framework For National Broadband Policy (Aspen Institute 2008).

Popular Press:
Why Law Schools Need to Teach More Than the Law to Thrive (or Survive), ABA Journal (June 20, 2016) (with Chad Asarch).
How law firms are innovating when it comes to hiring, ABA Journal (July 15, 2015).
What net neutrality means for Colorado, and why you should care, Colorado Public Radio (May 21, 2014).
Don't let the regulatory past be the prologue for Uber, Denver Post (April 9, 2014).
Professionalism in the New Normal, 42 The Colorado Lawyer 49 (October 2013).
Five Initiatives that Legal Education Needs, ABA Journal (September 26, 2013).
In the New Normal, Entrepreneurship a Must, Law Week Colorado (July 18, 2013).
Broadband For All, Rocky Mountain News (April 12, 2008).
A Third Way on Net Neutrality, New Atlantis (Summer 2006).
Which Broadband Nation?, Foreign Affairs (Sept/Oct 2005).
The Behemoth Is Dead. Long Live the Behemoth, Washington Post (Sunday, February 27, 2005).

Podcasts:
Teaching an Entrepreneurial Mindset to Everyone
Five Lens for Understanding Technology Policy
The Quad Framework for Understanding Law School

Testimony:
Hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce on Competition in the Communications Marketplace: How Technology Is Changing the Structure of the Industry.

Federal Trade Commission Hearing on Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy

Hearing of U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on The 700 MHz Auction: Public Safety and Competition.

Special Master Service
Development of a performance assurance plan for the Colorado PUC

Courses and Publications