Barbara van Schewick

Barbara van Schewick (born 1972 ) is a computer scientist and law professor at Stanford Law School. She is widely recognized as a leading expert on net neutrality and the economic and social implications of internet regulation.

Life Van Schewick was born in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia. After her first state law examination, she initially worked as a lawyer in Berlin, working, among other things, at a management consultancy and as a speechwriter for the then-Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen. In this respect, she has also been repeatedly consulted as an expert by the Federal Communications Commission. Van Schewick's work was supervised by Bernd Lutterbeck (TU Berlin) and Lawrence Lessig.

Van Schewick is married and has two sons. She is the daughter of the former Federal Administrative Court judge Hans-Jürgen van Schewick.

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