Gus Hurwitz

Justin (Gus) Hurwitz serves as director of law & economics programs at the International Center for Law & Economics. He oversees ICLE’s law & economics programming and research initiatives.

He is also a senior fellow and academic director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. His academic research sits at the intersection of antitrust, administrative, and regulatory law, drawing on the principles of engineering, industrial organization, jurisprudence, political philosophy, and technology ethics.

Previously, Hurwitz was a full professor of law and founding director of the Governance & Technology Center at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Earlier, he served as an associate professor and assistant professor of law at Nebraska and held leadership roles in technology, space, cyber, and telecommunications programs. He has also served as a visiting assistant professor at George Mason University Law School.

Before entering academia, Hurwitz worked as a trial attorney in the Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section of the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Earlier in his career, Hurwitz held graduate and undergraduate research positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory and interned at the Naval Research Laboratory, focusing on computer and computational sciences. Most importantly, while at Los Alamos, he was part of a team that held the Internet2 Land Speed World Record with the Guinness Book of World Records.

Hurwitz has received several individual honors and distinctions. These include the Ray H. Bunger Memorial Award for Excellence from the University of Nebraska College of Law, recognition as a Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazer by the National Law Journal, a Jones Day Swope Antitrust Writing Competition award, and recognition from U.S. Justice Department libraries for contributions to legal scholarship.