About Berin Szoka

Berin Michael Szoka (LinkedIn) is a Visiting Fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation. Before joining PFF, he practiced communications, Internet and satellite law as an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham and Watkins LLP. Prior to joining Latham, he previously practiced at Lawler Metzger Milkman & Keeney, LLC, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington, and clerked for the Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma. 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 and Technology. He is a recognized expert on the legal and regulatory issues associated with space commercialization and has been an Advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation since 2005. A self-described "reactionary futurist" who grew up off the electrical grid in hippie-turned-chic Placitas NM, before moving to the DC suburbs at age 10, Szoka spends his spare time---while not busy making the solar system safe for capitalism---enjoying baroque and early music; devouring history through podcasts, audiobooks and the occasional dead tree; and re-enacting the great battles of the American Revolution war with a small-but-growing army of LEGO minifigs.

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