The Information Society Project Lunch Speaker Series welcomes:
Dan Brenner
Senior Vice President for Law & Regulatory Policy
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
who will be presenting
Who'd You Say Killed the Internet? Networks and Transparency
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
12:30p - 2:00p
Yale Law School
Room 127
Lunch and presentation to be followed by Q&A
Abstract:
"Network neutrality" has gone through many iterations in public policy debates, with many critics pointing to network architecture or feared
network practices as being an impediment to the free-flow character of the Internet. What are the complaints, and what are the policy factors that
ought to be considered in developing commercial and government policies toward ISP networks?
Background Materials:
- Comments of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association,
before the Federal Communications Commission, on "Broadband Industry
Practices" (download PDF here)
Biography:
Daniel Brenner is Senior Vice President for Law & Regulatory Policy at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, Washington, D.C., where he has served since 1992. Previously, he served as Director of the Communications Law Program and a member of the faculty at UCLA Law School. He also served as Counsel to LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae (now Dewey & LeBoeuf). Brenner was Senior Legal Advisor to Chairman Mark Fowler of the Federal Communications Commission. He was also Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the ITU World Radio Conference in Geneva, Switzerland in 1984. He has served as a consultant on telecommunications issues for the RAND Corporation and the International Media Fund, and as a Senior Fellow at The Annenberg Washington Program and serves on the adjunct faculty of Georgetown School of Law.
Brenner has served on the Board of Directors of Tekelec (Nasdaq: TKLC), an international telecommunications equipment manufacturer based in North Carolina, since 1990. He is on the Board of Cable Positive, the cable industry’s AIDS awareness organization and served as a Trustee of Stanford University from 1982 to 1987. Brenner was appointed by the President of the United States and served as a member and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1986 to 1991. He is a graduate of Stanford University, Stanford Law School, and the senior executive program of Stanford School of Business.
Michael Zimmer, PhD
Microsoft Resident Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
e: michael.zimmer@yale.edu
w: http://michaelzimmer.org