Santa Clara Law - Carterfone Symposium

High Tech Law Institute

The High Tech Law Institute and the BroadBand Institute of California present
Carterfone and Open Access in the Digital Era

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The FCC’s 1968 Carterfone decision—celebrating its 40th anniversary this year—is frequently cited in policy discussions about Net Neutrality and open access, but there is little consensus about how its provisions should apply to Internet access providers and emerging communications technologies. This Symposium will gather leading telecommunications policy experts to explore the opinion’s implications—past, present, and future—on communications policy.

Attendance is free and open to the public. Five plus hours of CLE are also available to attorneys at HTLI benefactor firms and in-house counsel for free, to Santa Clara Law alumni for $50, and to everyone else for $100. Santa Clara Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.

Scheduled speakers include:

Marvin Ammori
University of Nebraska Lincoln College of Law

George Ford
Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies

Rob Frieden
Penn State University

Allen S. Hammond, IV
Santa Clara Law

Nicholas Johnson
University of Iowa College of Law

Christopher Libertelli
Skype

Gregory Rosston
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Catherine J.K. Sandoval
Santa Clara Law

Andrew Schwartzman
Media Access Project

James B. Speta
Northwestern School of Law

Kevin Werbach
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Proposed Schedule:

8:15-8:45       Registration

8:45-9:00       Introduction (Goldman)

9:00-10:30     Panel 1: Carterfone and Network Design (moderator: Goldman)

Hammond: "The Intelligent Network Redux"

Sandoval: "Internet Myth-Busting"

Werbach: Carterfone and standardization

10:30-11:00   Break

11:00-12:30   Panel 2: Carterfone and Technological Implementation (moderator: Hammond)

Policy Statements, Rules, and Wireless Carterfone"

Frieden: "Hold The Phone: Assessing the Rights of Wireless Handset Owners and the Network Neutrality Obligations of Carriers"

Rosston: "Carterfone and the Wireless World – Is There Enough Competition?"

12:30-2:00    Lunch and Keynote

                     Introduction (Hammond)

                     Johnson: "Carterfone: Present at the Creation" (starts at 1:15)

2:00-2:15      Break

2:15-4:15      Panel 3: Carterfone and Regulatory Development (moderator: Sandoval)

Ford: "Carterfone: Precedent, Principle, Neither, or Both"

Libertelli: Carterfone Principles and Competition Policy

Schwartzman: "Carterfone, Competition and the First Amendment."

Speta: "The Use and Abuse of 'The Carterfone Principle'"

4:15-4:30      Closing remarks

4:30-5:15      Reception

We thank our benefactors for their support:

Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman · McDermott Will & Emery · Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe · Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner · Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati · Fenwick & West · Cooley Godward Kronish

The High Tech Law Institute and the BroadBand Institute of California present Carterfone and Open Access in the Digital Era

The High Tech Law Institute and the BroadBand Institute of California present
Carterfone and Open Access in the Digital Era