Urs Gasser

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Urs Gasser (2016)

Urs Gasser (born April 28, 1972 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss legal scholar .

Urs Gasser heads the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University , is a professor at Harvard Law School and visiting professor at Keiō University in Japan and at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Before that, Gasser was a professor at the University of St. Gallen and head of the research center for information law. There he graduated in law in 1997 and received his doctorate in 2001; his dissertation on causality and attribution of information as a legal problem (CH Beck, Munich 2002) was awarded the Rudolf Mäder Prize of the University of St. Gallen in 2002 and the Professor Walther Hug Prize in 2003.

With a Landon H. Gammon Fellowship , Gasser completed his LL.M. - Harvard Law School program.

One focus of his research is the relationship between law and innovation and the regulation of digital media and technologies.

In August 2018, Gasser was appointed to the newly founded 10-member digital council of the German federal government.

Works

  • with John Palfrey: Generation Internet . Hanser, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-41484-6 (English: Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives .).
  • with James Thurman: Challenges and Topics in the Regulation of Search Engines . In: Marcel Machill, Markus Beiler (ed.): Die Macht der Suchmaschinen / The Power of Search Engines . Halem, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-938258-33-0 .

Web links

Commons : Urs Gasser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Walther Hug Prizes for Dissertations 2003 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Professor Walther Hug Foundation. Retrieved April 11, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.waltherhugstiftung.ch
  2. ↑ Federal Government | Article | The faces of the digital council. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gasser, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn