Phil Weiser
Phil Weiser is the attorney general of the State of Colorado and the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications at the University of Colorado Law School, whose faculty he joined in 1999. He is also dean emeritus of the UC Law School and serves as executive director of the school's Silicon Flatirons Center.
He served for a year as deputy assistant U.S. attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division in 2009 and, in 2010, was named senior advisor for technology and innovation to the director of the National Economic Council. He had earlier served in the Antitrust Division as senior counsel to Assistant U.S. Attorney General Joel Klein from 1996 to 1998.
Weiser clerked for Judge David Ebel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and then for Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court.
He received his bachelor's from Swarthmore College and his JD from New York University.
Phil Weiser
Mar 30, 2009
It is trite to say that “we are all Schumpeterians now.” When it comes to appreciating the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship, however, we are. Schumpeter, unfortunately, did not leave a theory of innovation that lends itself to easy application to public policy prescriptions, as Brad De Long has explained so clearly. By so clearly ... Weiser on Carrier’s Innovation in the 21st Century
