Phil Weiser

Phil Weiser

15th Dean of the University of Colorado Law School
In office June 2011 – July 2016
Preceded by	David Getches
Succeeded by	James Anaya

Personal details
Spouse(s)	Heidi Wald (m. 2002)
Alma mater	Swarthmore College (B.A.) New York University School of Law (J.D.)
Website	Official Website

Philip Jacob ("Phil") Weiser is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications, Executive Director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, and Dean Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School. He previously served in the Obama and Clinton Administrations in the White House and Justice Department. He is also a candidate for Attorney General for the State of Colorado in the 2018 election.

Weiser holds a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College with high honors, and a law degree from the New York University School of Law, with Order of the Coif honors, where he was an Articles Editor for the New York University Law Review. After graduating, Weiser served as law clerk to Judge David Ebel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals from September 1994 to August 1995. He was then a law clerk to Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the U.S. Supreme Court from September 1995 to August 1996. Following his clerkships, he was senior counsel to Joel Klein, the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Antitrust Division from 1996 to 1998.