Professor of Law
Wayne State University
(313 577-3942)
Jon Weinberg is on sabbatical this semester. (Click here for a model answer to last term's Immigration Law exam.)
Before coming to Wayne
State in 1988, Jon clerked for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and
Justice Thurgood Marshall, studied Japanese communications law as a
visiting (Fulbright) scholar at the University of Tokyo, and was an
associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner.
Since coming to Wayne, he has spent a year in residence at the Federal
Communications Commission's Office of Plans and Policy, a semester at
Cardozo Law School's Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and
Society, and a year on the civil appellate staff of the U.S. Justice
Department. He chaired a working group created
by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- the
international body seeking to order the domain name system and other
aspects of Internet infrastructure) -- to develop recommendations on
the creation of new Internet top level domains.
Some selected publications
Tracking RFID. A version of this paper is forthcoming in I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society.
Site Finder and Internet Governance, 1 U. Ottawa L. & Tech. J. 345 (2004).
ICANN, Internet Stability, and New Top Level Domains, in Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects 3 (Lorrie Cranor & Shane Greenstein eds., MIT Press 2002)
Digital TV, Copy Control, and Public Policy, 19 Cardozo Arts. & Ent. L.J. 277 (2002)
Geeks and Greeks, 3 Info 313 (2001)
ICANN and the Problem of Legitimacy, 50 Duke L.J. 187 (2000)
Hardware-Based ID, Rights Management, and Trusted Systems, 52 Stan. L.Rev. 1251 (2000). A shortened and revised version of this article was published in The Commodification of Information 343 (Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Netanel eds., 2003).
The Internet and "Telecommunications Services," Universal Service Mechanisms, Access Charges and Other Flotsam of the Regulatory System. A later version of this paper appears in 16 Yale Journal on Regulation 211 (1999), and in Internet Telephony (Lee McKnight et al eds. 2001). Yet another version appears in Competition, Regulation and Convergence: Current Trends in Telecommunications Policy Research 297 (Sharon Gillett and Ingo Volgelsang eds. 1999).
Rating the Net, 19 Hastings Comm/Ent L.J. 453 (1997). Versions of this article appear in Interconnection and the Internet 225 (Gregory L. Rosston & David Waterman eds. 1997), and The V-Chip Debate: Labeling and Rating Content from Television to the Internet 221 (Monroe E. Price ed. 1998).