Christopher Yoo

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Christopher S. Yoo is a professor of law at The University of Pennsylvania whose work focuses on technology law and media law. He has written extensively on the regulation of the Internet, the economics of copyright and imperfect competition. Yoo is a major proponent of his own self-styled "network diversity" and opposes network neutrality. He also studied the history of the unitary executive in the United States.

Previously, he clerked for Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy and Judge Arthur Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals. He also practiced law with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, DC.

From 1999 to 2007, Yoo was a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School. From 2005 to 2007, Yoo directed Vanderbilt's Technology and Entertainment Law Program. During the 2006-07 school year, he was also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He accepted an appointment as a full professor of law at Penn beginning in 2007. Yoo also has a secondary appointment at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania^[1].