The Free State Foundation

Excerpts from "New Directions" Essays

Dennis Weisman and Glen Robinson, "Lessons for Modern Regulators from Hippocrates, Schumpeter, and Kahn."

Christopher Yoo, "Network Neutrality After Comcast: Toward a Case-by-Case Approach to Reasonable Network Management."

Richard Epstein, "What Broadcast Licenses Tell Us About Net Neutrality: Cosmopolitan Broadcasting Co. v. FCC."

Bruce M. Owen, "A Fresh Start in Communications Policy: Two Modest Reforms."

Gerald W. Brock, "Unifying the Intercarrier Compensation Regime."

James B. Speta, "Redefining the Landscape of Internet Regulation."

Diane M. Disney, "Public Affairs and Private Employment: Some Unintended Consequences of the 1996 Telecommunications Act."

Randolph J. May, "Charting a New Constitutional Jurisprudence for the Digital Age."

Steven S. Wildman, "Delivering Media Content in a New Technological Environment: An Exploration of Implications for Television Policy."

John W. Mayo, "Universal Service: Can We Do More with Less?"

These videos are from The Free State Foundation's "New Directions in Communications Policy" Conference, held on February 26th, 2009.  The agenda for this conference can be found here.

Welcome and Introduction

Randolph J. May, President, The Free State Foundation

Opening Keynote

Honorable Marsha Blackburn, Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Deputy Minority Whip, U. S. House of Representatives

New Directions in Broadband Policy: Is Net Neutrality Necessary or Advisable?

Moderator: 
Michael K. Powell, former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Panelists:
Robert W. Quinn, AT&T
Thomas J. Tauke, Verizon
James B. Speta, Northwestern University School of Law
Thomas J. Sugrue, T-Mobile, USA
Joseph W. Waz, Jr., Comcast
Christopher S. Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School

New Directions in Universal Service and Intercarrier Compensation: Are There More Efficient, More Rational Ways Forward?

Moderator:
Deborah Taylor Tate, former FCC Commissioner and Distinguished Adjunct Senior Fellow, The Free
State Foundation

Panelists:
Robert D. Atkinson, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
Gerald W. Brock, George Washington University
Jeffrey A. Campbell, Cisco
Steven Davis, Qwest
John W. Mayo, Georgetown University

A Conversation with Blair Levin on FCC Reform and Other Issues

Blair Levin, Managing Director, Stifel Nicolaus, and Obama Transition Team Leader
Randolph J. May, President, The Free State Foundation

New Directions for Mass Media Policy: Can We Do With Less Regulation in the Digital Age?

Moderator:
Richard E. Wiley, former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

Panelists:
Diane M. Disney, Pennsylvania State University
James L. Gattuso, Heritage Foundation
Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers School of Law
Kyle E. McSlarrow, National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Glen O. Robinson, University of Virginia Law School
Steven S. Wildman, Michigan State University

New Directions in Communications Policy, February 26, 2009.
Featuring an opening keynote address by Representative Marsha Blackburn of the House Commerce Committee will deliver an opening keynote address and there panels moderated by Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell, former FCC Chairman Richard Wiley, and former FCC Commissioner Deborah Tate examining several hot-topic issues confronting policymakers, including broadband policy, network neutrality, universal service, media regulation, FCC institutional reform, and the Obama Administration's coordination of technology policy.  The agenda can be found here.

Archaic Intercarrier Compensation and Universal Service Regimes: Proposals for Reform, October 24, 2008.
Featuring Gerald Brock, Professor of Telecommunication and of Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University, John Mayo, Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy and Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, and FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate.
Transcript is available here.

Delivering Media Content in a New Technological Environment: An Exploration of Policy Implications, September 26, 2008.
Featuring Steven S. Wildman, James H. Quello Chair of Telecommunication Studies and Co-Director of the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University, and FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell.
Transcript is available here.