I’m a lawyer whose expertise is in cyberlaw and in First Amendment law.
I am a tenure-track professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law. At Nebraska, I help lead a JD/LLM program in Space & Telecom law (nearby, US Strategic Command has a Space Command and a Cyber Command regarding high-tech warfare). I teach cyberlaw (including cyberwarfare) and domestic and international telecom law, from common carriage and rate regulation to net neutrality and wireless auctions. My scholarship focuses on freedom of speech and new technologies. I’ve published popular articles as well, including in the New York Times, and write at Balkinization and the Huffington Post.
Before joining Nebraska, I represented consumer groups and churches on media reform and open Internet issues. I served as Free Press‘s first lawyer in Washington, DC and was most well-known in policy circles for quarterbacking the Free Press-Comcast case, regarding network neutrality before the FCC (with the help of and serving an amazing team). The case was later reversed on jurisdictional grounds before the D.C. Circuit, leading to the current reclassification debate. Though I represented many groups, all positions discussed on this site are my own.
I’ve studied under some of the great cyberlaw professors (and great people), at Harvard Law School, and on fellowships at Yale and Georgetown law schools. I attended the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, for college. I spent the summer of 2010 in Palo Alto, as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society.
I’m a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and also involved with the American Constitution Society.
