Susan P. Crawford
Susan P. Crawford | |
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 Susan Crawford at Free Press Changing Media Summit, at the Newseum in 2009 | |
| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) Santa Monica, California |
| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater | Yale University (B.A., J.D.) |
| Occupation | professor of law |
| Known for | legal and technology expert |
Susan P. Crawford (born 1963) is the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She has served as President Barack Obama's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and is a columnist for Bloomberg View. She is a former Board Member of ICANN, the founder of OneWebDay, and a legal scholar. Her research focuses on telecommunications and information law.
Early life
Crawford was born in 1963 and grew up in Santa Monica, where she attended Santa Monica High School, and played violin in the "Samohi" orchestra. According to her own website, she spent most of her time "hanging out in the band room" there. While at Yale, Crawford was the principal violist in the Yale Symphony Orchestra[1] and continues her daily practice and occasionally performs publicly.[2]
Education and career
Crawford holds a B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a law clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to become a professor.
After first teaching at Cardozo School of Law in New York City, Crawford became a visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School in the fall of 2007. After visiting at Yale Law School in the spring of 2008, she was admitted to the faculty at the University of Michigan Law School.[3] On July 1, 2010 Crawford rejoined the faculty at Cardozo, and also commenced as a Visiting Research Collaborator at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton.[4]
For calendar year 2012, Crawford visited Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government as the Stanton Professor of the First Amendment [5] and also was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School [6]
Internet activism
Crawford served as a member of the Board of Directors for ICANN from 2005-2008.[7] In 2005 she founded OneWebDay - a global celebration of the Internet. She is known as a champion of net neutrality, and has written on many other current policy issues.
In 2012, Yale University Press published her book, “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age.”[8]
In April 2014, Crawford proposed that a possible solution to net neutrality concerns may be municipal broadband.[9]
Public service
Crawford and Kevin Werbach served on the Federal Communications Commission Review team in the Obama transition.[10][11] In early 2009 Crawford was appointed the President's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy.[12] In October 2009 it was announced that she would step down when her one year sabbatical from the University of Michigan ended in January 2010.[13]
In October 2011 Crawford was appointed to Mayor Bloomberg's Council on Technology and Innovation.[14]
External links
Video
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Speaker series with Susan Crawford on U.S. Telecommunications Policy Google video December 14, 2007.
- “Rethinking Broadband” Personal Democracy Forum conference on Jun 4 2010.
- "Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair", Moyers & Company, PBS, February 8, 2013
- "After Words with Susan Crawford", Book TV, C-SPAN, Jun 27, 2013
- "Responsive Cities" , Responsive Cities, 2014 Knight-Civic Media Conference, Jun 23, 2014
Book
- Crawford, Susan (2013). Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly in the New Gilded Age. Yale U. Pr. ISBN 978-0-300-15313-2.
Articles
- ARTICLES BY SUSAN P CRAWFORD Bloomberg View 2011-2012
- Transporting Communications Boston University Law Review, Volume 89 Number 3 - June 2009
- WIRED author - Susan Crawford Wired magazine articles February 2012 to present.
References
- ^ "Cardozo Life : Winter 2004". Retrieved 2009-05-30.
- ^ "Concert Program July 16, 2006". Rock Creek Chamber Players. Retrieved 2009-05-30.
- ^ "Bio". scrawford.net. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
- ^ "In about 20 days". Susan Crawford. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
- ^ http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/susan-crawford
- ^ http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=1016
- ^ "ICANN Board: Thanks to Susan Crawford".
- ^ "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age". Retrieved 2012-08-12.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Crawford, Susan (28 April 2014). "The Wire Next Time". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ^ "Susan Crawford on Obama FCC transition team". 2008-11-14. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
- ^ Condon, Stephanie (14 November 2008). "Obama team takes on more tech execs". CNET News.com.
- ^ Phillips, Macon (July 1, 2009). "Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff". Blog. The White House. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
- ^ Kang, Cecilia (October 27, 2009). "Obama tech adviser Susan Crawford plans departure". Post Tech. Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ "Announcing BigApps 3.0, New Technology Council, and Immigration Seminars for Start-Ups". mikebloomberg.com. October 11, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- Obama Administration personnel
- Yale University alumni
- Yale Law School alumni
- American women lawyers
- University of Michigan Law School faculty
- John F. Kennedy School of Government faculty
- Harvard Law School faculty
- Cardozo School of Law faculty
- 21st-century American writers
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