Program on Law & Technology @ Columbia University School of Law

Professor of Law

Biography

Tim Wu specializes in telecommunications law, copyright, and international trade. He is the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? (Oxford U. Press 2006), and a regular contributor to Slate Magazine. In 2006 Wu was recognized by Scientific American for his work on network neutrality theory. He previously worked in the telecommunications industry in Silicon Valley, and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc), and Harvard Law School, and has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, and Stanford Law School.

Wu is on the advisory board of Public Knowledge and Free Press, is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and once worked at Hoo's Dumplings.

Law clerk for Judge Richard Posner, 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1998-99, and Justice Stephen Breyer, United States Supreme Court, 1999-2000. Director, Technical Marketing, Riverstone Networks, Inc., 2000-02. Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia, 2002-04. Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School, 2004, Visiting Professor, Chicago Law School, 2005, Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School, 2005