About Berin Szoka
Berin Michael Szoka (LinkedIn) is a Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation, where directs the The Center for Internet Freedom.
Before joining PFF, he practiced communications, Internet and satellite law as an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham & Watkins LLP. Previously, he practiced at Lawler Metzger, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington and clerked for the late Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
A recognized expert on the legal and regulatory issues associated with space commercialization, Berin is a member of the FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). He is also Chairman of the Board of the Space Frontier Foundation, a citizens' advocacy group founded in 1988 and dedicated to opening the space frontier by enabling "NewSpace."
He received his Bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Submissions Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.Posts by Berin Szoka
- The Right Way to Allow Cell Phone Jammers - And the FCC’s Way
- The Most Important Number for Technology Policy in 2009
- Cutting the (Video) Cord Part 3: The Growing Relevance of Internet TV
- IE’s Browser Market Share Down by 8-10% in 2008
- ICANN’s gTLD Proposal Hits a Wall: Now What?
- Martin Abandons Unconstitutional Filitering Proposal; What About Obama’s Universal Broadband?
- Obama Transition Team Seeks Public Comment on Space Solar Power
- Who Owns the Moon?
- PFF Amicus Brief in Key First Amendment Case: Limits on Audience Size are Unconstitutional
- Google Policy Fellowship Applications Due December 12
- M2Z Reborn: Censored, but Free, Broadband is Now Kevin Martin’s Top Priority
- “Virtual Worlds, Video Games and the Law” - 12/2 Event in DC
- $2 Billion Can Buy Real Change in Space—or More of the Same
- Alcohol Liberation Front Thursday, Nov. 6 with Jonathan Zittrain
- Use Competition to Bridge the Gap in Human Spaceflight
- Goodbye to Most Business Method & Software Patents?
- A Wide Diversity of Consumer Attitudes about Online Privacy
- Google Policy Fellow Program
- PFF Launches Center for Internet Freedom
- “Less Filling, Tastes Great!” - TLF Now on Twitter
- A Major Victory for Space Commercialization
- A Little Google/Math Humor
- NYT Live-Blogging Bailout Debate - Barney Frank Warns of Socialism!
- Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark to Speak at Google in DC October 3
- Celebrating 51 Years of the Space Age: Sputnik’s Launch
- Online Advertising & User Privacy: Principles to Guide the Debate
- “Bigger than Jesus”
- Suborbital Personal Spaceflight About to Take Off
- A Major Milestone for Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP)
- Still Cloudy on Cloud Computing: A Matrix to Guide the Coming Policy Debates
- Googlephobia: Part 5 - Google at Ten & Its Competition
- Googlephobia: The Series
- Market Forces At Work: The PR Backlash Against Google Chrome’s EULA
- About Political Ads on the TLF
- The FCC’s Comcast/Net Neutrality Order & Commissioner McDowell’s Dissent
- McCain’s Tech Policy a Mixed Bag at Best
- New TLF Comment Tool (Please Read!)
- Under-Appreciated Existing Legal Remedies for Trolling, Defamation and Other “Malwebolent” Invasions of Privacy
- If Bandwidth Is Abundant, It Can’t Be Scarce, So Why Can’t We Have Net Neutrality?
- PFF Database Cleared by StopBadware.org & Put Back Online
- “Cry [Censorship] and Let Slip the Dogs of [Regulation]!” - A Lesson in the Dangers of Googlephobia
- Two Declarations of Independence
- Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Viewer Records
- Not One, Not Two, but THREE Competing Open Source Mobile Operating Systems
- New Biography of Georges Doriot, Founding Father of Venture Capital
- Best (Government) Job Ever
- Senate Housing Bill to Require Collecting of Online Payment Information
- Alcohol Liberation Front 5.1: Scoble’s Tech Happy Hour in DC Wednesday, June 25
- The Winback Wars, Round Two: Verizon v. NCTA
- Google Endorses Speed-based Prioritization - What About Net Neutrality?
- Google to Offer Broadband Users Tools to Monitor ISP Traffic Management
- Exclusive Handset Prohibitions: Should the FCC Kill the Goose that Laid the Golden iPhone?
- Google, California’s Privacy Policy Law & Our Sci-Fi Future