Kevin Werbach
Encyclopedia
Internet
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and communications technologies. Werbach is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
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(since 2004). He is also the organizer of the annual Supernova technology conference and maintains a blog ("werblog").
On 14 November 2008 it was announced that President-elect Barack Obama
Barack Obama
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has selected Susan Crawford and Werbach to lead the review of the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC). The review team "will ensure that senior appointees have the information necessary to complete the confirmation process, lead their departments, and begin implementing signature policy initiatives immediately after they are sworn in."
Werbach's areas of interest are emerging internet technologies, telecommunications policy, electronic commerce, wireless communication, and regulation. He advises major information technology and communications companies on strategic business and policy implications of emerging technologies. At The Wharton School Werbach is currently working in the areas of evolving Internet architecture policy implications, regulation of Internet video, next-generation broadband access, and decentralized communications, computing, and media business implications.
Career
Werbach holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley (1991) and a JD from Harvard Law SchoolHarvard Law School
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(1994), where he was Publishing Editor of the Harvard Law Review
Harvard Law Review
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and Publisher of the Harvard Law Record
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.
Werbach was founder of the Supernova Group (2002-Present), editor of Release 1.0 (1998-2002), and Counsel for New Technology Policy at the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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(1994-1998). Werbach has also served on the Board of Directors of the TPRC Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (2003-Present), is a Fellow at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan
International University of Japan
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(2002-Present), and sat on the Advisory Board of Knowledge@Wharton (2005-Present), Public Knowledge (2002-Present) and Socialtext (2003-Present).
Publications
- The Centripetal Network: How the Internet Holds Itself Together, and the Forces Tearing it Apart, 42 UC DAVIS L. REV. 343 (2009).
- Only Connect, 23 BERKELEY TECH. L. J. 1234 (2008).
- Sensors and Sensibilities, 28 CARDOZO L. REV. 2321 (2007).
- Radio Revolution: The Coming Age of Unlicensed Wireless, (New America Foundation and Public Knowledge, December 2003).
- A Layered Model for Internet Policy, 1 J. TELECOMM. & HIGH TECH. L. 37 (2002).
- Supercommons: Toward a Unified Theory of Wireless Communication, Texas L. Rev.863 82 (2004).
- Syndication: The Emerging Model for Business in the Internet Era, Harvard Business Review 85 (May/June 2000).
- Digital Tornado: The Internet and Telecommunications Policy, (FCC Office of Plans and Policy Working Paper No. 29, March 1997).