PhilipÌýJ. Weiser
- Adjunct Faculty
- Dean Emeritus, University of Colorado Law School
Phil Weiser is serving as Colorado’s Attorney General since January 2019.Ìý He is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications, and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. From June 2011-July 2016, Professor Weiser served as Dean after re-joining the Colorado faculty in June, 2011. From April 2010-June 2011, he served as the Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation to the National Economic Council Director at the White House. From July 2009-April 2010, he served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
Since first joining the CU faculty in 1999, Professor Weiser has worked to establish a national center of excellence in telecommunications and technology law, founding theÌýÌýand theÌýÌýas well as writing and teaching in the areas of competition policy, innovation policy, and Internet policy.Ìý Over the last several years,ÌýWeiser has co-authored three books (Ìý(MIT Press 2013) (with Jon Nuechterlein),ÌýÌý(Carolina Academic Press 2012) (With Stuart Benjamin,ÌýHowardÌýShelanski Ìý& James Speta), andÌýÌý(Oxford University Press 2010), written numerous articles (in both law journals and publications such as the Washington Post and Foreign Affairs), and testified before both houses of Congress.Ìý He also remained engaged in public service, arguing a number ofÌýpro bonoÌýcases before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, co-chairing the Colorado Innovation Council, and serving as the lead agency reviewer for the Federal Trade Commission as part of the 2008 Presidential Transition.
Prior to joining the Colorado Law faculty, Professor Weiser served as senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division at the United States Department of Justice, advising him primarily on telecommunications matters.Ìý Before his appointment at the Justice Department, Weiser served as a law clerk to Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the United States Supreme Court and to Judge David Ebel at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.Ìý Weiser graduated with high honors from both the New York University School of Law and Swarthmore College.
Visiting Professorships:
New York University, Fall 2008
University of Pennsylvania Law School, Fall 2006
Princeton Law and Public Affairs Program, Fall 2001 & Spring 2002
Published Books:
Ìý(MIT Press 2013) (with Jon Nuechterlein). ÌýFor an event focused on the book,Ìý.
Ìý(Carolina Academic Press 2012) (With Stuart Benjamin,ÌýHowardÌýShelanski Ìý& James Speta). ÌýFor the table of contents andÌýchapterÌýone,Ìý.
(with Gastil, Deess, and Simmons) (Oxford University Press 2010)
Ìý(MIT Press 2005) (with Jon Nuechterlein). For the table of contentsÌý; for Chapter OneÌý; for a paper based on the bookÌý.
Monographs:
Ìý(2014) (with Pierre de Vries) (The Brookings Institution).
Ìý(The Brookings Institution 2008).
Ìý(Aspen Institute 2008).
Popular Press:
, ABA Journal (June 20, 2016) (with Chad Asarch).
, ABA Journal (July 15, 2015).
ÌýColorado Public Radio (May 21, 2014).
,ÌýDenver PostÌý(April 9, 2014).
, 42ÌýThe Colorado LawyerÌý49Ìý(October 2013).
,ÌýABA JournalÌý(September 26, 2013).
,ÌýLaw Week ColoradoÌý(July 18, 2013).
,ÌýRocky Mountain NewsÌý(April 12, 2008).
,ÌýNew AtlantisÌý(Summer 2006).
,ÌýForeign AffairsÌý(Sept/Oct 2005).
,ÌýWashington PostÌý(Sunday, February 27, 2005).
Podcasts:
Testimony:
Hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce on Competition in the Communications Marketplace: How Technology Is Changing the Structure of the Industry.
Special Master Service

