Biography

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.

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 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 December 2001, she was the first residential fellow at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society.

In the News

• FCC Finalizes Comcast's Filtering Penalties
  CNET News.com, August 20, 2008
• High-Speed Internet Access For All
  Government Computer News, June 24, 2008
• FCC Hears Net Neutrality Arguments At Stanford
  San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 2008

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Communications Law

Programs

• Center for Internet and Society, Faculty Co-Director

Publications & Cases

• 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 (Forthcoming 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, Toward an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality Regulation, 5 Journal on Telecommunications and High Technolgoy Law 329 (Winter 2007).