
A.B., Harvard University
J.D., Columbia Law School
Professor Weinberg has been a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg; a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies; a legal scholar in residence at the FCC's Office of Plans and Policy; a visiting scholar at Cardozo Law School; and a professor in residence at the U.S. Justice Department. He chaired a working group created by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, an international body that administers the Internet domain name system) to develop recommendations on the creation of new Internet top level domains. He joined the Wayne Law faculty in 1988.
Weinberg has published numerous articles on Internet and high-technology law and policy, as well as on the regulation of broadcasting and other more venerable electronic media. More recently, he has been thinking and writing about immigration law.
The End of Citizenship?, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 931 (2009)
Tracking RFID, 3 I/S J. L. Pol'y Info. Soc. 777 (2007-08)
RFID and Privacy, in SECURING PRIVACY IN THE INTERNET AGE (Anupam Chander, Lauren Gelman, & Margaret Jane Radin eds. 2008)
RFID, Privacy, and Regulation, in RFID: APPLICATIONS, SECURITY, & PRIVACY (Simson Garfinkel & Beth Rosenberg eds. 2006)
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)
US Media Law Update, 5 MEDIA & ARTS L. REV. [AUSTRALIA] 271 (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., 2002).
Broadcasting and Related Media, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION (Leonard W. Levy et al., eds.) (2d ed. 2000)
The Internet and “Telecommunications Services,” Universal Service Mechanisms, Access Charges and Other Flotsam of the Regulatory System, 16 YALE J. ON REG. 211 (1999). This article has also been published as Internet Telephony Regulation in INTERNET TELEPHONY (Lee McKnight et al. eds. 2001); an earlier version appears in COMPETITION, REGULATION AND CONVERGENCE: CURRENT TRENDS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH 297 (Sharon Gillett and Ingo Volgelsang, eds. 1999).
US Media Law Update, 4 MEDIA & ARTS L. REV. [AUSTRALIA] 199 (1999)
Technology, Free Expression and the Law, UPDATE ON LAW-RELATED EDUCATION, Fall 1998, at 6
New Media and Old Debates (review of RATIONALES & RATIONALIZATIONS: REGULATING THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA (Robert Corn-Revere ed. 1997)), Jurist Books-on-Law (July 1998), available at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawbooks/revjul98.htm#Weinberg
Rating the Net, 19 HASTINGS COMM/ENT L.J. 455 (1997). This article has also been published in THE V-CHIP DEBATE: LABELING AND RATING CONTENT FROM TELEVISION TO THE INTERNET 221 (Monroe E. Price ed. 1998); an earlier version appears in INTERCONNECTION AND THE INTERNET 225 (Gregory L. Rosston & David Waterman eds. 1997).
Cable TV, Indecency and the Court, 21 COLUM.-VLA J.L. & ARTS 95 (1997)
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and U.S. Media Ownership, in 1996 YEARBOOK OF MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW 99 (Eric M. Barendt et al. eds.) (with Monroe Price)
United States, in MEDIA OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL IN THE AGE OF CONVERGENCE 265 (Int'l Inst. of Communications 1996) (with Monroe Price)
Vagueness and Indecency, 3 VILL. SPORTS & ENT. L. J. 221 (1996)
Broadcasting and Speech, 81 CALIF. L. REV. 1101 (1993) This article also appears in FIRST AMENDMENT LAW HANDBOOK, 1994-95 EDITION 177 (James L. Swanson ed. 1994), and (without footnotes) as Hoso to Genron, in HOSOSEIDORON NO PARADAIMU [PARADIGMS OF THE BROADCASTING SYSTEM] 79 (Junichi Hamada ed. & Itsuko Yamaguchi trans., University of Tokyo 1994).
Broadcasting and the Administrative Process in Japan and the United States, 39 BUFFALO L. REV. 615 (1991) A substantial portion of this article appears in MICHAEL H. BOTEIN, REGULATION OF THE ELECTRONIC MASS MEDIA: LAW AND POLICY FOR RADIO, TELEVISION, CABLE AND THE NEW VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES 585-97 (3d ed. 1998).
Thurgood Marshall and the Administrative State, 38 WAYNE L. REV. 115 (1991)
Limiting Access to the Broadcast Marketplace, 44 BULL. OF [UNIV. OF TOKYO] INST. OF JOURNALISM & COMM. STUD. 2 (1991)
Questioning Broadcast Regulation (review essay), 86 MICH. L. REV. 1269 (1988)
Amerika Gasshukoku ni Okeru Yusen Terebijon to Chosakuken [Cable Television and Copyright in the United States], 15 CHOSAKUKEN KENKYU 23 (1988)
Note, Constitutional Protection of Commercial Speech, 82 COLUM. L. REV. 720 (1982)
- January 29, 2009
Jonathan Weinberg will publish a book review, The End of Citizenship?, in 2009 in the Michigan Law Review. - January 23, 2009
Jonathan Weinberg organized a panel discussion on "Immigration, Databases, Credentials, and Privacy" at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools. At that meeting, he stepped down as chair of the AALS Defamation and Privacy section and began a year as chair of the section on Mass Communications Law. - October 1, 2008
Jonathan Weinberg moderated a panel on "Implications of Regulatory Asymmetry Across the Globe" at the TPRC Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy on Sept. 27, 2008. - September 29, 2008
Jonathan Weinberg participated on a panel on "The Future of Trusted Systems" at a Workshop on Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Security and Privacy, held at New York University's Interdisciplinary Center for Information Security and Privacy on Sept. 26, 2008. - May 8, 2008
Jonathan Weinberg was a commenter on Adam Cox & Cristina Rodríguez's paper "The President and Immigration Law" at the biennial Immigration Law Teachers' Workshop in May 2008. - March 31, 2008
Jonathan Weinberg was a commenter on Peter Spiro's book Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization at Wayne State University's Fifth Annual Conference on Citizenship Studies on March 27-29, 2008. Later on, he was an invited participant in a colloqium on the book at the Opinio Juris website.
- Jonathan Weinberg was quoted by Dugie Standeford in an article titled "Commerce Committee ICANN Letter Could Inflame Fears of U.S. Overreaching" in the Washington Internet Daily on Aug. 11, 2009.
- Jonathan Weinberg commented in a story about the federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The DREAM Act would provide conditional legal status to undocumented students who entered the country before age 16 and lived here at least five years and graduated from a U.S. high school or earned a GED.
Read Article - Jonathan Weinberg provided his legal expertise in a Detroit Metro Times article titled "Tangled up in cable: How lawsuits, legislation and injunctions change the way your TV is watched and paid for" on May 6, 2009.
Read Article - Jonathan Weinberg provided legal expertise in a Detroit Metro Times story titled "Home rules: As economy slides, state legislatures eye curbs on illegal immigrants."
Read Article - Jonathan Weinberg provided his legal expertise in a Detroit Metro Times story on Obama's immigration policy challenges.
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