About - Jerry Brito

Jerry Brito is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and director of its Technology Policy Program. He also serves as adjunct professor of law at GMU. His research focuses on technology and telecommunications policy, government transparency and accountability, and the regulatory process. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Kathleen O’Hearn.

Brito received his J.D. from George Mason University School of Law and his B.A. in political science from Florida International University. His op-eds have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald, and elsewhere. He is the author of several published scholarly articles and a contributor to the Technology Liberation Front, a leading tech policy group blog.

Jerry is the creator of Unclutterer, a popular blog about personal organization and simple living that is read by over a quarter-million unique visitors each month. He also writes about technology policy at Surprisingly Free and hosts a weekly podcast of the same name. On the government transparency side of things, Jerry is the creator of OpenRegs.com, an alternative interface to the federal government's regulatory docketing system, and the co-creator of the accountability website Stimulus Watch.

Want to know what Jerry’s up to? Check out his tumblelog where he posts daily links, photos, and videos. You can also follow him on Twitter. Other places you can find Jerry’s content include: Flickr, del.icio.us, Facebook, Vimeo, Cork’d, and SSRN.

About

All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data: Open Government (Daniel Lathrop & Laurel Ruma, eds., O'Reilly 2010)
Midnight Regulations and Regulatory Review: 61 Administrative Law Review 163 (2009).
Co-authored with Veronique de Rugy.
Toward a More Perfect Union: Regulatory Analysis and Performance Management: 8 Florida State Business Law Review 1 (2009).
Co-authored with Jerry Ellig.
Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency (PDF): 9 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review 119 (2008).
A Tale of Two Commissions: Net Neutrality and Regulatory Analysis: 16 CommLaw Conspectus 1 (2007).
Co-authored with Jerry Ellig.
Growth in Regulation Slows: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2007 and 2008: The 29th Annual Regulators’ Budget Report.
Co-authored with Melinda Warren. June 2007.
Sending out an S.O.S.: Public Safety Communications Interoperability as a Collective Action Problem (PDF): 59 Federal Communications Law Journal 3 (2007).
Video Killed the Franchise Star: The Consumer Cost of Cable Franchising and Policy Alternatives (PDF): 5 Journal on Telecomm. & High Tech. Law 199 (2006).
Co-authored with Jerry Ellig.
The Spectrum Commons in Theory and Practice: 2007 Stanford Technology Law Review 1 (2007).
An Orphan Works Affirmative Defense to Copyright Infringement Actions (PDF): 12 Michigan Telecomm. & Tech. Law Review 75 (2005).
Co-authored with Bridget Dooling.
Relax, Don’t Do It: Why RFID Privacy Concerns Are Exaggerated and Legislation Is Premature: 2004 UCLA Journal of Law & Technology 5 (2004).
Much Ado about Nothing: The Effects of the Post-Enactment Acquisition Rule in Palazzolo v. Rhode Island: 14 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 543 (2005).

Academic Articles

Information Trickles Up: Local Knowledge, September, 2009.
Co-authored with Daniel M. Rotshchild
Why pay millions of dollars to defense contractor to build Recovery.gov?: The Washington Examiner, July 10, 2009.
An Accountability Agenda (PDF): Regulation Magazine, Winter, 2008.
Co-authored with Jerry Ellig.
OIRA at Midnight (PDF): Regulation Magazine, Fall, 2008.
Co-authored with Patrick McLaughlin.
Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?: Ars Technica, July 28, 2008.
Improving Government Transparency Online: The Public Manager, Spring 2008.
Put more government data online: Des Moines Register, January 8, 2008.
Transparency (PDF): Regulation Magazine, Winter, 2008.
Co-authored with Mark Adams.
Considering Net Neutrality (PDF): Regulation Magazine, Fall, 2007.
Co-authored with Jerry Ellig.
Regulators’ Budget (PDF): Regulation Magazine, Fall, 2007.
Co-authored with Melinda Warren.
Net Neutrality: Where’s the Beef?: Tech Central Station, July 24, 2007.
Failure to Communicate: The Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2007.
Think Diffident: The American, January 23, 2007.
Public Safety Interoperability (PDF): Regulation Magazine, Fall 2006.
Will Broadband Kill the Broadcast Star?: Tech Central Station, September 6, 2006.
Public Nuisance: The Costs of Giving Everyone A Say on Cable Television (PDF): Doublethink Magazine, Fall 2006.
Who’s your daddy?: The Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2006.
Co-authored with Bridget Dooling.
Spectrum commons (PDF): Regulation Magazine, Spring 2006.
Orphan works (PDF): Regulation Magazine, Winter 2005.
Competing with piracy: Brainwash, October 16, 2005.
The Castro generation: Doublethink Magazine, Winter 2005.
“Free Culture,” free book: Brainwash, April 11, 2004.

Op-Ed + Magazine

Radio, TV, and podcast appearances are on this page.

Electronic Media