Tim Wu

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Tim Wu (2014)

Tim Wu (also: Timothy Wu , * 1972 in Washington, DC ) is an American legal scholar who coined the term net neutrality in 2003 .

Life

Tim Wu first studied biochemistry at McGill University in Canada and graduated in 1995 before turning to law. Graduated from Harvard Law School in 1998.

From 2002 to 2005 Wu was a lecturer at the University of Virginia before he was visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago , Stanford and Harvard until 2011 . Since 2006 he has been the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School . He teaches competition law, copyright law and telecommunications law and deals in particular with legal issues of the large media groups . He advocates breaking up Facebook , its subsidiaries and other large Internet companies.

In addition to his academic career, Wu was an advisor to the Federal Trade Commission on competition law and consumer protection issues from 2011 to 2012 . In 2015/2016 he was Senior Enforcement Counsel and Special Advisor in the New York Attorney General . In 2016/2017 he was Special Adviser to the National Economic Council in the White House during the Obama administration .

In September 2014 Tim Wu resigned as his running mate on the side of Zephyr Teachout in the primaries of the Democratic Party for election as governor of New York at. They received 40.1% of the vote and were thus subject to the later re-elected Governor Andrew Cuomo and his candidate for the office of Vice-Governor , Kathy Hochul .

In 2017, Wu was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Tim Wu: Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination . ID 388863. Social Science Research Network, Rochester, NY June 5, 2003 ( ssrn.com [accessed May 19, 2018]).
  • Tim Wu, Jack Goldsmith .: Who controls the Internet? Illusions of a borderless world . Oxford University Press, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-515266-1 .
  • Tim Wu: The master switch. The rise and fall of the media empires . 1. Aufl. Mitp, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 3-8266-9166-0 (Original title: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires , 2010).
  • Tim Wu: The attention merchants. The epic scramble to get inside our heads . First ed. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-385-35201-7 .

Web links

Commons : Tim Wu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed May 19, 2018 .
  2. Tim Wu: Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination . Social Science Research Network, Rochester, NY June 5, 2003 ( ssrn.com [accessed May 19, 2018]).
  3. Eike Kühl: Facebook: Smash what breaks you . In: The time . May 21, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on May 22, 2019]).
  4. WNYC Data News: Election 2014 | WNYC. Accessed May 19, 2018 .