Tim Wu
Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and a writer for Slate Magazine. He is best known for popularizing the concept of network neutrality. Professor Wu's specialty is copyright and telecommunications policy. He has a well-known series of articles on network neutrality, and is often credited with coining the term. For his work in this area, Professor Wu was named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006.
Wu graduated from McGill University in 1995 with a B.Sc., and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1998. He worked with the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, after graduating law school, and before starting a clerkship with Richard Posner on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (1998-99). Wu also clerked for Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court (1999-2000).
Following his clerkships, Wu worked at Riverstone Networks, Inc. (2000-02) and then entered academia at the University of Virginia School of Law. In 2006 he accepted a faculty appointment at Columbia Law School.
Influential Publications:
- Who Controls the Internet (Oxford U. Press, 2006)
- Copyright's Communications Policy Michigan Law Review (2005)[1]
- The Broadband Debate, a User's Guide Journal of Telecommunications & High Tech. Law (2004)
- Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination Journal of Telecommunications and High Tech. Law (2003)
