Robert A. Anthony (1931-2011) is George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Emeritus at George Mason University School of Law. Professor Anthony is one of the foremost experts on administrative law, and especially on agency rulemaking, policymaking, and guidance practices. He has headed two federal agencies, including serving from 1974 to 1979 as the Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States. His articles on administrative law have been cited often by the courts, including the Supreme Court. Gerald W. Brock is Professor of Telecommunication and of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Regulatory Studies Center. Prior to joining the GW faculty in 1990, Professor Brock served as Chief of the FCC's Common Carrier Bureau. His research interests include telecommunications and Internet policy and the inter-relationship of regulation and technological progress, and he is the author of four books and many articles on these subjects.
Michelle P. Connolly is Associate Professor of the Practice within the Economics Department at Duke University. Professor Connolly served as Chief Economist for the Federal Communications Commission first in 2006-2007 and again in 2008-2009. She was the Economics Director of the Duke in New York: Financial Markets and Institutions Program for 20007-2009, and has also served as Director of EcoTeach and Economist for the International Research Function for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Professor Connolly's research and policy interests include media, broadband, the univeral service fund, and spectrum allocation. Her articles and papers have appeared in numerous journals. Diane M. Disney is Chancellor and Professor of Management at PennsylvaniaStateUniversity's School of Graduate Professional Studies. She formerly was Dean of Commonwealth College. Chancellor Disney served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Civilian Personnel Policy) from 1994 to 2001, where she oversaw the development and implementation of policies for managing DoD's workforce. She also was Director of the University of Rhode Island's ResearchCenter in Business and Economics. Dr. Disney has written and testified widely on workforce development, human resource management, and defense issues, and has served on several international commissions. John F. Duffyis Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School where he teaches torts, administrative law, patent law, and international intellectual property law. Professor Duffy is the co-author of a casebook on patent law and has written extensively on administrative law, regulatory policy and intellectual property. Professor Duffy clerked for Judge Stephen Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard A. Epsteinis James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He has also been the Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. Professor Epstein, one of the nation's most influential public law scholars, has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985. He is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles covering a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects. Ellen P. Goodmanis Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law-Camden. Professor Goodman specializes in the law of information technology, including telecommunications, media and intellectual property. She has been an expert panelist before the National Science Foundation, the Federal Communications Commission, the Brookings Institute, and the Aspen Institute, as well as other policy and academic audiences. Professor Goodman has published extensively on First Amendment, media policy, and spectrum issues.
Alfred E. Kahn (1917 - 2010) is the Robert Julius Thorne Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Cornell University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1977 through 1978, he served as Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and he also served as an advisor to President Jimmy Carter on inflation. Professor Kahn is a former Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission. He is the author of the leading text, The Economics of Regulation: Principles and Institutions, among many other books and articles. Stan J. Liebowitz is Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of the School of Management's Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation. Professor Liebowitz is currently president of the Society for Economic Analysis of Copyright Issues. His major areas of research interest include intellectual property, network effects, tie-ins, bundling, and mortgage discrimination issues, and he has written widely in these areas.
Daniel Lyons is Assistant Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. His major areas of research include telecommunications and cyberlaw, administrative law, and property. Professor Lyons clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and he has participated in rulemaking proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission and several state regulatory agencies. He has written on a wide range of topics, including technology convergence, net neutrality, and cable regulation.
Bruce M. Owenis the Gordon Cain Senior Fellow at SIEPR. He is the Morris M. Doyle Professor in Public Policy and director of the Public Policy Program and also a professor, by courtesy, of economics. Professor Owen's research is in the areas of competition and regulation policy, law and economics, and mass media. He served as the chief economist of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and, earlier, of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy. Professor Owen is the author or co-author of numerous articles and eight books.
Richard J. Pierce, Jr., is the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Professor Pierce is the most frequently cited scholar in the country in the field of administrative law and government regulation. He is a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, and is the author or co-author of Administrative Law Treatise (5th ed. 2010) and Administrative Law & Process (5th ed. 2009), as well as numerous other books and more than 120 articles on government regulation, regulatory economics, and the effects of various forms of government intervention on the performance of markets.
Glen O. Robinson is Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He served as a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission from 1974-1976. Professor Robinson has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department on communications matters, and in 1979 was Ambassador and U.S. Representative to the World Administrative Radio Conference in Geneva. Professor Robinson has taught and written extensively in a number of fields, including administrative law, antitrust, communications, and cyberlaw.
James B. Speta is Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. He teaches in the Law School and in the Joint Program in Law and Business operated by the Law School and the Kellogg School.His research interests include telecommunications and Internet policy, antitrust, administrative law, and market organization. Professor Speta clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and, before joining the Northwestern University faculty, practiced appellate, telecommunications, and antitrust law. William Van Alstyne is Lee Professor of Law at the Marshall-Wythe Law School at the College of William and Mary. For many years, Professor Van Alstyne has been recognized as one of the nation's leading authorities on constitutional law and First Amendment law. He is the author of a leading text on First Amendment law and many scholarly articles on various aspects of constitutional law. Professor Van Alstyne frequently has been invited to testify at congressional hearings on constitutional law topics. Eugene Volokhis Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at UCLA Law School where he teaches, among other subjects, constitutional law and criminal law. He is also a nationally recognized expert on cyberspace law. Professor Volokh is the author of a leading First Amendment text and numerous law review articles. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in math-computer science at age fifteen, worked for twelve years as a computer programmer, and clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. Dennis L. Weismanis Professor of Economics at Kansas State University. Professor Weisman is on the editorial board for the Review of Network Economics, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and Information Economics and Policy. His primary research interests are in strategic behavior and government regulation, and he is the author of numerous publications in these fields. Professor Weisman's work has been cited by the Supreme Court.
Steven S. Wildman is James H. Quello Chair of Telecommunication Studies and Co-Director of the QuelloCenter for Telecommunication Management and Law at MichiganStateUniversity. His research interests include economics and policy for mass media industries, institutional underpinnings of law and regulation for communication industries, and universal service policy. Professor Wildman is the co-author or co-editor of five books.
Christopher S. Yoois Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication. He is Co-Director of the Law School's Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition. He has written prolifically and testified before Congress and federal agencies on communications law, government regulation, and intellectual property. Professor Yoo clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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