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 Hears Net Neutrality Arguments At Stanford
  San Francisco Chronicle, April 18, 2008

Courses & Programs

Programs

• Center for Internet and Society, Faculty Co-Director

Publications & Cases

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