Stanford Center for Internet and Society

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Assistant Professor of Law and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, and Co-Director, Center for Internet and Society

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Barbara van Schewick's research focuses on the economic, regulatory and strategic implications of communication networks. In particular, she explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to these changes. This work has made her a leading expert on the issue of network neutrality. Professor van Schewick is Co-Director of the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering (by Courtesy) at Stanford’s Department of Electrical Engineering.

Prior to joining the Stanford Law faculty, van Schewick was a senior researcher at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, and a nonresidential fellow of the Center for Internet and Society. van Schewick has advised the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research on innovation and technology policy and worked with the German Federal Network Agency on spectrum policy. From August 2000 to November 2001, she was the first residential fellow at the Center for Internet and Society.

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