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December 02, 2008, 01:58 PM ET
2 Professors Have Obama's Ear on Tech Policy
If you have been following Internet policy debates over the past several years, you have probably run across the writings of Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Kevin Werbach, an assistant professor of legal studies at the University of Pennyslvania’s Wharton School of Business. Now these two names are in the news again — they’re advising President-elect Barack Obama as he considers whom to install at the Federal Communications Commission.
Both have been strong advocates for net neutrality, the premise that all data flowing over the Internet should be treated equally by service providers. (Paul Cesarini’s recent essay in The Chronicle Review provides a fuller definition.) They are active participants on CircleID, a news and opinion site about Internet infrastructure.
A Wired blog item called Ms. Crawford and Mr. Werbach “highly-regarded outside-the-Beltway experts in telecom policy.” But according to an article yesterday in Congress Daily, some people doubt that the two will have the last word on who should chair the commission. —Lisa Guernsey
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