Barbara van Schewick

Barbara van Schewick (2015)

Barbara van Schewick (* 1972 in Bonn ) is a German computer scientist and legal scholar who holds a professorship for Internet law at Stanford Law School in the USA.

Life

Van Schewick studied computer science at the Technical University of Berlin and law at the Free University of Berlin . After her first state examination in law, she first worked as a lawyer in Berlin, including for a management consultancy and as a speechwriter for the then governing mayor, Eberhard Diepgen . After passing the second state examination in law, she was the first residential fellow for 15 months at the Center for internet and society (CIS) at Stanford University, newly founded by Lawrence Lessig . Since October 2004 she has been a research assistant at the Telecommunications Networks Department at the TU Berlin.

In her dissertation for Dr.-Ing. she dealt with the Internet architecture , with the design principles on which it is based, in particular with the end-to-end principle, as well as with the technical, economic and social progress that is made possible by it. Van Schewick's academic interest is particularly in questions of net neutrality . She emphasizes the economic disadvantages that are to be feared in the event that net neutrality is abandoned and the network operators can each set up their own rules for using the Internet. In this respect, she has also been heard repeatedly as an expert by the American Federal Communications Commission . She is of the opinion that the Internet as it was originally designed and how it has worked so far, and the associated opportunities for innovation, are now "in danger". The work was supervised by Bernd Lutterbeck (TU Berlin) and Lawrence Lessig.

In 2007 she was offered a position at Stanford Law School. Since then she has also been working as Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering (by Courtesy) . Since Lessig's move to Harvard University , she has headed the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford.

Van Schewick has received several awards for her work. She received a study and doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation and a foreign scholarship from the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation . In 2010 she received the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation's Technical Communication Research Prize for Communication Research . For her dissertation on Internet Architecture and Innovation , she was awarded the Science Prize of the German Foundation for Law and Informatics (DSRI) in 2005 and the Dieter Meurer Legal Informatics Award of the German EDP Court Conference in 2006.

Barbara van Schewick is married and has two sons. She is the daughter of the former judge at the Federal Administrative Court, Hans-Jürgen van Schewick .

Fonts

• Barbara van Schewick: Architecture & innovation: The role of the end-to-end arguments in the original internet . The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2010, ISBN 978-0-262-01397-0 (also Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2005).

Web links

• Barbara van Schewick on the Stanford Law School website
• Barbara van Schewick at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School
• Internet Architecture and Innovation
• Discussion in secret . Interview about net neutrality. In: broadband. Deutschlandradio Kultur. Broadcast on July 4th, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ramona Ehret: Network operator as a brake on innovation. TU scientist Barbara van Schewick sees the Internet at a crossroads. TU Berlin, November 18, 2005, accessed December 24, 2010 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Nicole Germeroth, DSZ - German Foundation Center: Barbara van Schewick, Stanford Law School, receives Research Award Technical Communication 2010. Alcatel-Lucent Foundation for Communication Research , October 8, 2010, accessed on December 23, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Monika Ermert: Interview on net neutrality: Necessary for competitiveness? Heise online, c't, July 16, 2006, accessed December 23, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Philip Banse, Philip Albers: Internet in Danger. New book by B. van Schewick on the architecture of the Internet. Deutschlandradio Kultur, October 16, 2010, accessed on December 23, 2010 (broadband). 
5. ↑ Monika Ermert: Measuring violations of neutrality. Heise online Newsticker, October 10, 2010, accessed on December 23, 2010 : “The new award winner of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation and FCC expert Barbara van Schewick referred to violations of net neutrality rules due to economic and political strategies in markets such as the USA or Canada there. On the sidelines of the award ceremony in Stuttgart, she said it was five to twelve to preserve the classic internet principle and thus the innovative strength that makes it possible. " 
6. ↑ Award ceremony of advancement awards 2005. German Foundation for Law and Informatics, accessed on January 19, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Barbara van Schewick: Architecture & innovation: The role of the end-to-end arguments in the original internet . The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2010, ISBN 978-0-262-01397-0 , pp. xi f (also Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2005).