Gus Hurwitz is a Senior Fellow at Penn Carey Law and serves as the Academic Director of the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition. His work builds on his background in law, technology, and economics to consider the interface between law and technology and the role of regulation in high-tech industries. His primary focus at Penn is developing academic and research programs between the engineering and law schools. He is also Director of Law & Economics Programs at the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), a research center based in Portland, Oregon, where he directs its law and economics-focused research program and helps to translate academic research into applied policy issues. He was previously a full professor and founding director of the Governance & Technology Center at the University of Nebraska, prior to which he was the inaugural research fellow at the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition (CTIC). From 2007 to 2010, he was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division in the Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section. Before attending law school, Hurwitz worked at Los Alamos National Lab and interned at the Naval Research Lab. During this time his work was recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium, Los Alamos National Lab, IEEE & ACM, Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California, R&D Magazine, and even the Guinness Book of World Records. A current list of Hurwitz’s publications is available on his website: GusHurwitz.net.
