Tim Wu is a senior lawyer and special adviser in the office of the New York State attorney general. He is currently on a leave of absence from Columbia Law School, where he is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, director of the Poliak Center for the First Amendment at Columbia Journalism School, and a regular contributor for The New Yorker. He is also a former Bernard L. Schwartz and Future Tense fellow at The New America Foundation.