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Tel: 215.746.8772
Fax: 215.573.2025
Office Room: Silverman 131
Email: csyoo@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Communications Law
- Government Regulation
- Intellectual Property
- Law and Technology
- Mass Media Law
- Regulated Industries
- Separation of Powers
Bio
Christopher Yoo has emerged as one of the nation's leading authorities on law and technology.
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Christopher Yoo has emerged as one of the nation's leading authorities on law and technology. His research focuses primarily on how technological innovation and economic theories of imperfect competition are transforming the regulation of the Internet and other forms of electronic communications. He has been a leading voice in the debate over “network neutrality” that has dominated Internet policy over the past two years. He is also pursuing research on copyright theory as well as a historical project on presidential power. Yoo is the co-author of forthcoming books on the regulation of telecommunications (Cambridge University Press) and on the history of presidential control over the administration of the law (Yale University Press). He has authored more the two dozen articles and book chapters, published in the Columbia, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Northwestern University Law Reviews among others, as well as the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and the Yale Journal on Regulation. He is a frequent lecturer on technology-related topics, presenting his research at such leading universities as Yale, Columbia, Berkeley, Michigan, Virginia, Cornell, Georgetown, and UCLA, and at scholarly conferences. Yoo has frequently been asked to testify before Congress and leading regulatory agencies, such as the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. Before joining the Penn faculty in 2007, Yoo served as Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Technology and Entertainment Law Program at Vanderbilt University. Prior to that, he clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also practiced with the law firm of Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C., under the supervision of now-Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Founding Director, Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition (2007-); Professor (2007-); Visiting Professor (2006); Annenberg School - Professor (2007-)
Vanderbilt University Law School - Founding Director, Technology and Entertainment Law Program (2005-07); Professor (2005-07); Associate Professor (2002-2005); Assistant Professor (1999-2002)
Hogan & Hartson LLP - Associate (1996-97, 1998-99)
Law Clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States (1997-98)
Law Clerk to Judge A. Raymond Randolph, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1995-96)
Representative Publications
Mandating Access to Telecom and the Internet: The Hidden Side of Trinko, 106 COLUM. L. REV. (forthcoming December 2007) (with Daniel F. Spulber).
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Copyright and Public Good Economics: A Misunderstood Relation, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 635 (2007).
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Network Neutrality and the Economics of Congestion, 94 GEO. L.J. 1847 (2006).
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Beyond Network Neutrality, 19 HARV. J.L. & TECH. 1 (2005).
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On the Regulation of Networks as Complex Systems: A Graph Theory Approach, 99 NW. U. L. REV. 1687 (2005) (with Daniel F. Spulber).
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The Unfulfilled Promise of Korean Telecommunications Reform, in LEGAL REFORM IN KOREA 169 (Tom Ginsburg ed., RoutledgeCurzon 2004).
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Copyright and Product Differentiation, 79 N.Y.U. L. REV. 212 (2004).
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Access to Networks: Economic and Constitutional Connections, 88 CORNELL L. REV. 885 (2003) (with Daniel F. Spulber).
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The Rise and Demise of the Technology-Specific Approach to the First Amendment, 91 GEO. L.J. 245 (2003).
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Vertical Integration and Media Regulation in the New Economy, 19 YALE J. ON REG. 171 (2002).
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Copyright and Democracy: A Cautionary Note, 53 VAND. L. REV. 1933 (2000).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
NETWORKS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ECONOMICS AND LAW (Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming 2008) (with Daniel F. Spulber).
THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE: PRESIDENTIAL POWER FROM WASHINGTON TO BUSH (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2008) (with Steven G. Calabresi).
Network Neutrality, Consumers, and Innovation, 2008 U. CHI. LEGAL FORUM (forthcoming 2008)
Is Open Source Software the New Lex Mercatoria?, 47 VA. J. INT'L L. 807 (Summer 2007) (with Fabrizio Marrella).
Keeping the Internet Neutral?: Tim Wu and Christopher Yoo Debate, 59 FED. COMM. L.J. 575 (2007) (with Tim Wu).
What Can Antitrust Contribute to the Network Neutrality Debate?. 1 INT'L J. COMM. 493 (2007).
Representative Professional Activities
Testimony - House Judiciary Committee, Hearing on Net Neutrality and Free Speech on the Internet(Mar. 11, 2008).
Testimony - Federal Communications Commission, Public En Banc Hearing on Broadband Network Management Practices (Feb. 25, 2008).
Testimony - Federal Trade Commission, Workshop on Broadband Connectivity Competiton Policy (Feb. 14, 2007).
Testimony - Federal Communications Commission, Hearing on Media Ownership (Dec. 11, 2006).
Testimony - Senate Judiciary Committee, Hearing on Presidential Signing Statements (June 27, 2006).
Testimony - Senate Judiciary Committee, Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr., as Chief Justice of the United States (Sept. 25, 2005).
Appearances - NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (July 26, 2006, and June 28, 2002).
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