The University of Colorado at Boulder Law School

Clinical Faculty
J. Brad Bernthal

University of Colorado Law School
105R Wolf Law Building
401 UCB
Boulder, CO  80309-0401
Phone: (303) 492-0610
E-mail: brad.bernthal@colorado.edu

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Bio:
Brad leads the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (LAWS 7619) and the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic (LAWS 7809). In addition to his clinical instruction, Brad teaches doctrinal courses in the areas of telecom policy, spectrum management, and entrepreneurial finance. Prior to joining Colorado Law as an Associate Clinical Professor, Brad served as the Silicon Flatirons Fellow for 2005-2007, a research associate appointment associated with the Silicon Flatirons Center. His current research involves telecommunications policy issues with a focus on spectrum management, public safety, and so-called ‘smart’ radios (i.e., cognitive and software defined radios). Brad also teaches in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (“ITP”).

Prior to law school, Brad conducted legislative research as a staff assistant to United States Senator Robert Kerrey. Brad started his legal career in San Francisco with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP. He then returned to Denver where he practiced at Hogan & Hartson, LLP before most recently working for the Boulder law firm of Berg, Hill, Greenleaf and Ruscitti LLP.

Articles

Bernthal (with Nancy Jesuale), Smart Radios and Collaborative Public Safety Communications., Accepted for publication in IEEE Proceedings of the Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2008) Conference, Chicago, IL, October 14-17, 2008. (2008).

Bernthal (with Dale Hatfield and Phil Weiser), The Future of 9-1-1: New Technologies and the Need for Reform, 6 J. on Telecomm. & High Tech. L. 213-292 (2008).

Bernthal (with Timothy X. Brown, Dale N. Hatfield, Douglas C. Sicker, Peter A. Tenhula & Philip J. Weiser), Trends and Precedents Favoring a Regulatory Embrace of Smart Radio Technologies, in Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, April 2007 (2007).

Bernthal Brad Bernthal et. al.,, Collaborative Networks and the Alaska Land Mobile Radio System: A Framework for Analyzing Inter-Agency People Problems Which Frustrate Public Safety Interoperability, (TPRC Sept. 2007) (2007).

Bernthal (with Philip J. Weiser and Dale Hatfield), Toward A Next Generation Architecture for Public Safety Communications (2006). In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a unitary reliance on Land Mobile Radio systems (LMRs) failed public safety agencies, leaving them without any source of communications once they lost transmission capability. Unfortunately, in the wake of this tragedy, many have dusted off traditional prescriptions for improving public safety communications, such as more dedicated spectrum and more money for single-purpose LMRs (or LMRs based on technology that fails to facilitate broader functionalities). As we explain, however, both the needs underscored by Katrina and the capabilities made possible by emerging technologies call for a different strategy. abstract

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