Christopher S. Yoo
John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Christopher S. Yoo is the John H. Chestnut Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, professor of computer and information science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and founding director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition. He is also an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on law & technology, antitrust, telecommunications regulation, intellectual property, privacy, and administrative law. His scholarship examines imperfect competition in communications markets, network neutrality, interoperability, and the regulation of digital platforms, as well as the technical and institutional design of Internet governance. He also studies copyright theory and the history of presidential power.
Yoo previously served on the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, the American Law Institute’s project on data-privacy principles and the data-economy restatement, and the United Nations Internet Governance Forum’s initiative on connecting and enabling the next billions. He frequently testifies before Congress and federal competition and communications agencies.
Before joining the University of Pennsylvania, Yoo was a professor of law and founding director of the Technology and Entertainment Law Program at Vanderbilt University. Earlier in his career, he practiced law in the appellate group at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells).
He also served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and to Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Yoo is the author of “The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses Are Transforming the Network.” He is also the co-author, with Daniel F. Spulber, of “Networks in Telecommunications: Economics and Law,” and, with Steven G. Calabresi, of “The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush.”
His honors include the John Paul Stevens Prize for graduating first in his law school class, the Lowden-Wigmore Prize, Order of the Coif, and numerous competitive research grants and fellowships.
He earned a J.D. magna cum laude from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s from Harvard University.
