Colorado's Attorney General Phil Weiser on Antitrust, Federalism, and Price Gouging

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser was sworn in as the state's 39th Attorney General on January 8th, 2019. Before running for office, he served as the Hatfield Professor of Law and Dean of the University of Colorado Law School where he founded the Silicon Flatiron Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship and co-chaired the Colorado Innovation Council. He's also served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice and Senior Advisor for Technology and Innovation in the Obama administration's National Economic Council. He served in President Bill Clinton's Department of Justice as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the antitrust division, advising on telecommunications matters. And before that he had also served as law clerk to Justice Byron White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme court. And everybody who knows Phil knows he's a force of nature in keeping so many things running and writing so much and contributing to so many aspects of law and economics and technology.