Don't Miss The Administrative Law Review's Annual Symposium, Tomorrow, April 16!

The ABA-sponsored Administrative Law Review, housed at the American University Washington College of Law, is hosting its annual symposium: Lessons from Broadcast Regulation for the Twenty-First Century on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.  

This symposium will reexamine the landmark article, A Marketplace Approach to Broadcast Regulation, by former FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler and Judge Daniel L. Brenner, thirty years after its initial publication.  Our discussion will feature an author retrospective, as well as a consideration of “lessons learned” from broadcast regulation that may inform future FCC regulation of broadcast, cable, the Internet, and beyond.  

In addition to Judge Brenner and Chairman Fowler, the distinguished speakers include:

Christopher Yoo of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Thomas Hazlett of the George Mason University School of Law, Lili Levi of the University of Miami School of Law, Ellen Goodman of the Rutgers’ School of Law, Antoinette Bush of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Andrew Jay Schwartzman of Free Press, John Bergmayer of Public Knowledge, Charles Firestone of the Aspen Institute, Chérie Kiser of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel LLP, and former FCC Chairman Richard E. Wiley. 

To  register for the event visit: http://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/founders/2013/20130416.cfm

Questions? Email Senior Symposia Editor, Erica Lynn Tokar at alr.sse@wcl.american.edu

Watch the Video of FSF's January 23 Book Event on Communications Policy!

A video of the Free State Foundation's January 23 book launch and luncheon at the National Press Club is now available here. 

The event celebrated FSF's new book, Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age: The Next Five Years. Several of the book's contributing authors, all prominent experts in the field of communications law and policy, discussed their book chapters and engaged in a lively, interactive exchange with the audience concerning today's most pressing issues.  Topics included broadband policy, net neutrality, USF reform, and public media reform. 

The authors who participated in this event were: Moderator: Randolph J. May, President, The Free State Foundation; Christopher Yoo, Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors - "Internet Policy Going Forward: Does One Size Still Fit All?"; Daniel Lyons, Professor, Boston College Law School, and Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors - "Reforming the Universal Service Fund for the Digital Age"; Ellen Goodman, Professor, Rutgers School of Law - Camden, and Member of FSF's Board of Academic Advisors - "Public Media Policy Reform and Digital Age Realities," and; Seth Cooper, FSF Research Fellow - "Restoring a Minimal Regulatory Environment for a Healthy Wireless Future."