Agenda

Christopher S. Yoo is the Imasogie Professor in Law & Technology, Professor of Communication, Professor of Computer & Information Science; the Founding Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition; and the Faculty Co-Director of the Penn Center of Media, Technology & Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is the author of 4 books and over 130 other scholarly works and has taught at over a dozen universities around the world.  

Professor Yoo received his A.B. from Harvard University, his M.B.A. from UCLA, and his J.D. from Northwestern University.  Before entering the academy, Professor Yoo clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.  He also practiced law with the D.C. firm of Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) under the supervision of now-Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr.  He previously taught at the Vanderbilt Law School, where founded the Technology and Entertainment Law Program.

He is frequently called to testify before the U.S. Congress, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, foreign governments, and international organizations. He has served as a member of the Federal Communication Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, a Consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, a member of the Board of Advisors for the American Law Institute’s (ALI’s) Project on Principles of Law for Data Privacy and the Restatement of Principles for a Data Economy (joint with the European Law Institute), and as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network. He is currently serving as co-Chair of the International Telecommunication Union’s inaugural Academic Advisory Body and as an Advisor to the ALI’s new project on Principles of the Law, Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence (AI).  He is also co-leading an international initiative to create technically implementable AI standards.