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Christopher S. Yoo

John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science; Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition

Christopher Yoo

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

Books

REGULATING THE CLOUD: POLICY FOR COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE (Christopher S. Yoo & Jean-Francois Blanchette eds., MIT Press 2015).
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THE DYNAMIC INTERNET: HOW TECHNOLOGY, USERS, AND BUSINESS ARE TRANSFORMING THE NETWORK (AEI Press 2012).
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CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: COPYRIGHT, 2 vols. (Christopher S. Yoo ed., Edward Elgar 2011).
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NETWORKS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ECONOMICS AND LAW (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009) (with Daniel F. Spulber).
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THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE: PRESIDENTIAL POWER FROM WASHINGTON TO BUSH (Yale Univ. Press 2008) (with Steven G. Calabresi).
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Articles and Book Chapters

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 Impact of Codification on the Judicial Development of Copyright, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE COMMON LAW 177 (Shyamkrishna Balganesh ed., Cambridge University Press 2013).

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).

Vertical Integration and Media Regulation in the New Economy, 19 YALE J. ON REG. 171 (2002).

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Working Papers

Copyright and Personhood Revisited, 2018 U. ILL. L. REV. (forthcoming)
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The Transformation of Transformative Use, 1 J.L. & INNOVATION (forthcoming 2019). (forthcoming)

James Wilson as Architect of the American Presidency, 16 GEO. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y (forthcoming 2018). (forthcoming)
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Common Carriage’s Domain, 34 YALE J. ON REG. (forthcoming 2018). (forthcoming)
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Network Neutrality and 5G, in THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET – INNOVATION, INTEGRATION AND SUSTAINABILITY (Guenter Knieps & Volcker Stocker eds., Nomos forthcoming 2018). (forthcoming)

Antitrust, the Internet, and the Economics of Networks, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ANTITRUST ECONOMICS 380 (Roger D. Blair & D. Daniel Sokol eds., Oxford University Press 2014) (with Daniel F. Spulber).
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Product Differentiation, in 1 RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (Ben Depoorter & Peter Menell eds., Edward Elgar forthcoming 2018). (forthcoming)
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Legal Mechanisms for Governing the Transition of Key Domain Name Functions to the Global Multi-Stakeholder Community, in 2 WHO RUNS THE INTERNET?: THE GLOBAL MULTI-STAKEHOLDER MODEL OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE 67 (Centre on International Governance Innovation & Chatham House 2017) (with Aaron Shull & Paul Twomey).
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U.S. vs. European Broadband Deployment: What Do the Data Say?
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Public Good Economics and Standard Essential Patents, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-27.
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Research Areas

  • Telecommunications Law
  • Cyberlaw/Internet Law
  • Privacy
  • Antitrust
  • Copyright
  • Mass Media Law
  • Presidential Power
  • Economic Regulation

Positions

Penn Law - John H. Chestnut Professor of Law (2011- ); Founding Director, Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition (2007- ); Professor (2007-2011); Visiting Professor (2006)

Annenberg School for Communication, Penn - Professor (2007- )

School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Computer and Information Science, Penn - Professor (2010- )

Vanderbilt University - Professor of Law and Founding Director, Technology and Entertainment Law Program (2005-07); Associate Professor (2002-2005); Assistant Professor (1999-2002)

Law Clerk to the Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States (1997-98)

Law Clerk to the Hon. A. Raymond Randolph, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1995-96)

Professional Activities

Testimony, Senate Committee on the Judiciary (2014, 2006, 2005); House Committee on Energy and Commerce (2014); Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (2010); House Committee on the Judiciary (2009, 2008); U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (2018); Federal Communications Commission (2014, 2010, 2008, 2006); Federal Trade Commission (2007).

Federal Communications Commission, Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (2017–).

World Economic Forum, Internet for All Initiative, Steering Committee and Project Lead for the Data Working Group (2016–present).

American Law Institute, Board of Advisers, Restatement Third, Information Privacy Principles (2012–present); Board of Advisers, Restatement Third, Principles for a Data Economy (2018–present); Member (elected 2011).

United Nations Internet Governance Forum, Co-Convener, Connecting and Enabling the Next Billions (2017–present); Co-Convener, Dynamic Coalition on Innovative Approaches to Connecting the Unconnected (2016–present).

Courses

  • Internet Law
  • Privacy
  • Antitrust
  • Introduction to Intellectual Property
  • Telecommunications Law
  • Copyright Theory
  • Technology and Policy

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