A senior advisor on the White House’s National Economic Council has been named the new dean of the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.
Philip J. Weiser, senior advisor for technology and innovation on the White House council, will assume his duties as dean on July 1.
Weiser joined the CU-Boulder faculty as a professor of law and telecommunications in 1999.
Prior to joining the White House, Weiser served as the deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.
Weiser took that post in July 2009, taking a leave of absence from the CU law school where he was a professor of law, associate dean for research, and the executive director and founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship.
CU-Boulder Provost Russell Moore said he was delighted to name Weiser, a man he described as “legal scholar, a public servant and a great thinker and motivator.
“His work in technology law has made him a seminal figure in that discipline,” said Moore.
Before joining the CU-Boulder law faculty in 1999, Weiser served as senior counsel to the assistant attorney general at the Justice Department’s antitrust division from 1996 to 1998.Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com.
