Phil Weiser is the Dean of the Law School at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was appointed to his current position in 2011, after serving as Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation to the National Economic Council at the White House and, immediately prior, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Weiser began this service in Washington, DC in 2009.
Since joining Colorado Law in 1999 as a professor of law and telecommunications, Phil Weiser has worked to establish a national center of excellence in telecommunications and technology law. Highlights include, founding the Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law, as well as the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, where he currently serves as Executive Director. The Silicon Flatirons Center is a nationally recognized for elevating the debate around technology issues, and facilitates networking and the development of “human capital” in the Colorado technology community as well as across the country.
Prior to joining the Colorado Law faculty, 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. He graduated with high honors from both the New York University School of Law and Swarthmore College.
Dean Weiser writes and teaches in the areas of competition policy, innovation policy, and Internet policy. Over the last ten years, Weiser has co-authored two books: Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age (MIT Press 2005) and Telecommunications Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press 2006); numerous articles (in both law journals and publications such as the Washington Post and Foreign Affairs); and has testified before both houses of Congress. He currently serves as a co-Chair of the Colorado Innovation Council and served as the lead agency reviewer for the Federal Trade Commission as part of the 2008 Presidential Transition.
Degree(s):
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1990
J.D., New York University School of Law, 1994
