Christopher S. Yoo
John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science; Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
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.
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
Rethinking Copyright and Personhood, 2019 U. ILL. L. REV. 1039 (2019).
James Wilson as the Architect of the American Presidency, 16 GEO. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 51 (2019).
Common Carriage’s Domain, 34 YALE J. ON REG. 991 (2018).
Hipster Antitrust: New Bottles, Same Old W(h)ine?, CPI ANTITRUST CHRONICLE, April 2018.
Presidential Signing Statements: A New Perspective, 164 U. PA. L. REV. 1801 (2016).
Modularity Theory and Internet Policy, 2016 U. ILL. L. REV. 1.
Protocol Layering and Internet Policy, 161 U. PA. L. REV. 1707 (2013).
Coase Revisited: Property Theory and Emerging Technologies, 160 U. PA. L. REV. 2189 (2012)
Product Life Cycle Theory and the Maturation of the Internet, 104 NW. U. L. REV. 641 (2010).
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).
Copyright and Product Differentiation, 79 N.Y.U. L. REV. 212 (2004).
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Working Papers
Due Process in Antitrust Enforcement Through the Lens of Comparative Law, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-11 (forthcoming)
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The Transformation of Transformative Use, 1 J.L. & INNOVATION (forthcoming 2019). (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)
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U.S. vs. European Broadband Deployment: What Do the Data Say? (forthcoming)
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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)
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Computer and Information Science, Penn - Professor (2010- )
Annenberg School for Communication, Penn - Professor (2007- )
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 (1997-1998)
Law Clerk to the Hon. A. Raymond Randolph, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1995-1996)
Professional Activities
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 (2016–2018).
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 (2016–2018).
Testimony, House Committee on the Judiciary (2019, 2009, 2008); Senate Committee on the Judiciary (2014, 2006, 2005); House Committee on Energy and Commerce (2014); Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (2010); Federal Trade Commission (2019, 2007); U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (2018); Federal Communications Commission (2014, 2010, 2008, 2006).
Courses
- Internet Law
- Privacy
- Antitrust
- Introduction to Intellectual Property
- Telecommunications Law
- Copyright Theory
- Technology and Policy