Biography

Barbara van Schewick̕s 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 Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and an 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.

In the News

• Net Neutrality Proponents Warn FCC Of Loopholes In Regulations
  Media Post News, November 02, 2009

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Communications Law

Programs

• Center for Internet and Society, Faculty Co-Director

Publications & Cases

• Barbara van Schewick and David Farber, Point/Counterpoint: Network Neutrality Nuances, 52 Communications of the ACM 31 (February 2009).
• Letter from Professor Jack Balkin, Yale Law School and Professor Barbara van Schewick, Stanford Law School, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary of the Federal Communications Commission, Comment on Commission Order Requiring Comcast to End Discriminatory Network Management Practices (August 20, 2008).
• Second Public En Banc Hearing on Broadband Network Management Practices, Federal Communications Commission (April 17, 2008) (oral statement of Barbara van Schewick, Assistant Professor of Law and Electrical Engineering, Co-Director of the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School).
• Second Public En Banc Hearing on Broadband Network Management Practices, Federal Communications Commission (April 17, 2008) (written statement of Barbara van Schewick, Assistant Professor of Law and Electrical Engineering, Co-Director of the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School).
• Brett M. Frischmann and Barbara van Schewick, Network Neutrality and the Economics of an Information Superhighway: A Reply to Professor Yoo, 47 Jurimetrics 383 (2007).
• Petition for Declaratory Ruling of Free Press; Public Knowledge; Media Access Project; Consumer Federation of America; Consumers Union; Information Society Project at Yale Law School; Professor Charles Nesson, Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School; Professor Barbara van Schewick, Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School, Before the Federal Communications Commission, WC Docket No. 07-52 (November 1, 2007).
• Barbara van Schewick, Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality Regulation, 5 Journal on Telecommunications and High Technolgoy Law 329 (Winter 2007).