Phil Weiser

After graduating, Weiser served as law clerk to Judge David Ebel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals from September 1994 to August 1995. He was then a law clerk to Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the U.S. Supreme Court from September 1995 to August 1996. Following his clerkships, he was senior counsel to Joel Klein, the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Antitrust Division from 1996 to 1998.[2]

In 1999, Weiser joined the University of Colorado Boulder Law School as a professor of law and telecommunications. There, Weiser established the national center of excellence in telecommunications and technology law and founded the Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law.[2][8] He also founded the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and he wrote and taught in the areas of competition policy, innovation policy, and Internet policy.[9][2][10]

In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Weiser as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.[11][12] He took the post in July 2009, taking a leave of absence from the University of Colorado Law School.[13] In 2010, President Obama named him senior advisor for technology and innovation to the National Economic Council Director, and he participated in a series of policy initiatives.[14][15][16][17]

From June 2011 through July 2016, Weiser served as the 15th Dean of the University of Colorado Law School.[18][19] During his time as Dean he was named one of the National Jurist's most influential leaders in legal education.[20] Through the Silicon Flatirons Center, Weiser developed a range of programs to build up CU Boulder’s support for entrepreneurship and has linked it to the local startup community.[21][22] Some of the initiatives include Tech Lawyer Accelerator, the Corporate Counsel Intensive Institute and the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative.[23][24]

Weiser was elected Attorney General for the State of Colorado in the 2018 election, defeating Republican George Brauchler on November 6, 2018.[5] Weiser took office in January 2019, becoming the first Democratic Colorado Attorney General in 15 years. Later that same month, Weiser withdrew Colorado from a lawsuit that his predecessor, Republican Cynthia Coffman, had filed against the Clean Power Plan.[25]

• Phil Weiser & Jon Nuechterlein, Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age (MIT Press 2013) ISBN 9780262140911.[29]
• Phil Weiser, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Shelanski & James Speta, Telecommunications Law and Policy (Carolina Academic Press 2012) ISBN 978-1-61163-691-8.[30]
• Phil Weiser, The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation (Oxford University Press 2010) ISBN 0195377311.[31]

• Weiser, Philip J. (2001). "Federal Common Law, Cooperative Federalism, and the Enforcement of the Telecom Act". N.Y.U. L. Rev. 76 (6): 1692. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
• Weiser, Philip J. (2003). "Cooperative Federalism and Its Challenges". Mich. St. L. Rev. 2003: 727. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
• Weiser, Philip J. (2003). "Justice White and Judicial Review". U. Colo. L. Rev. 74: 1305. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
• Weiser, Philip J. (2003). "Regulatory Challenges and Models of Regulation" (PDF). J. On Telecomm. And High Tech. L. 2: 1. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
• Weiser, Philip J. (2003). "Toward A Next Generation Regulatory Regime" (PDF). Loyola L. Rev. 35: 41. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
• Weiser, Philip J. (2005). "First Principles for an Effective Rewrite of the Telecommunications Act of 1996". AEI-Brookings Joint Center Paper Series. SSRN 707124.
• Weiser, Philip J.; Hatfield, Dale N. (2005). "Policing the Spectrum Commons". Fordham L. Rev. 75 (2): 74. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
• Weiser, Philip J. (2005). "The Ghost of Telecommunications Past". Mich. L. Rev. 103 (6): 1671. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
• Weiser, Philip J. (2005). "The Relationship of Antitrust and Regulation in A Deregulatory Era". Antitrust Bulletin. 50 (September 2005). SSRN 814945.
• Weiser, Philip J. (2010). "What Carrier Doesn't Address" (PDF). Ala. L. Rev. 61 (3): 571. Retrieved September 14, 2017.