University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 71 Issue 4, Fall 2000
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
PHIL WEISER, Paradigm Changes In Telecommunications Regulation. B.A., Swarthmore College; J.D., New York University. Phil Weiser is an Associate Professor of Law and Telecommunications at the University of Colorado School of Law, where he teaches courses in telecommunications law, law and economics, antitrust, and constitutional theory. Professor Weiser, who has authored several articles dealing with issues relevant to telecommunications law, such as Chevron, Cooperative Federalism, and Telecommunications Reform, served as the Faculty Sponsor for the University of Colorado Law Review's Telecommunications Symposium. Prior to teaching, Professor Weiser clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White and Judge David M. Ebel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Weiser also served as Senior Counsel to Joel Klein, Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
JAMES ALLEMAN, Universal Service: The Poverty of Policy. A.B., M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of Colorado. James Alleman is an Associate Professor for the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado. Previously, Professor Alleman served as the Director of the International Center for Telecommunications Management at the University of Nebraska, as Director of Policy Research for GTE, and as an Economist for the International Telecommunications Union.
PAUL N. RAPPOPORT, Universal Service: The Poverty of Policy. Ph.D., Ohio State University. Paul N. Rappoport is an Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University. He has over twenty-five years experience in data analysis, modeling, and statistical assessment, with a specialization in telecommunications demand analysis. He was responsible for the development of Bill Harvesting™, a national database of actual communications bills, a small business panel, which focuses on telecommunications and energy, and a large consumer national telecommunication database. His current research work is focused on modeling internet demand, network externalities, and competitive analysis.
DENNIS WELLER, Universal Service: The Poverty of Policy. M.A. Stanford University; B.S., University of Colorado. Dennis Weller is Chief Economist at GTE. He is responsible for GTE's policy positions on such issues as the transition to competition, universal service, and access reform. Prior to joining GTE, Mr. Weller served as pricing strategist for AT&T. Mr. Weller did additional graduate work in economics at Stanford after receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado.
BOB ROWE, Substance Plus Process-Telecom Regulation Reforms to Protect Consumers, Preserve Universal Service, and Promote Competition. B.A., Lewis and Clark College; J.D., University of Oregon; additional graduate work in public administration and public policy with the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Program. Bob Rowe is Commissioner for the Montana Public Service Commission, and President of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners ("NARUC"). He is a member of the National Regulatory Research Institute Board of Directors, the Michigan State University Institute of Public Utilities Advisory Committee, and the New Mexico State University Center for Public Utilities Advisory Council. He is Past Chair of the Regional Oversight Committee for US West.
JIM CHEN, Standing in the Shadows of Giants: The Role of Intergenerational Equity in Telecommunications Reform. B.A., M.A., Emory University; J.D., Harvard University. Jim Chen is a Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota School of Law, where he teaches courses in administrative, constitutional, and environmental law. In addition to teaching in Minnesota, Professor Chen has taught at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany and at the Université de Nantes in France. Professor Chen clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge J. Michael Luttig of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to attending law school, Professor Chen was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Iceland. His recent publications include The Magnificent Seven: American Telephony's Deregulatory Shootout and The Second Coming of Smyth v. Ames.
JAMES B. SPETA, The Vertical Dimension of Cable Open Access. B.A., J.D., University of Michigan. James B. Speta is an assistant professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law, where he teaches in the areas of telecommunications, anti-trust, and administrative law. He also teaches in the Joint Program in Law and Business in the area of market organization. Prior to joining Northwestern University, Professor Speta clerked for the Hon. Harry T. Edwards of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, taught federal appellate practice and contemporary First Amendment issues as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and practiced appellate litigation and telecommunications law as an associate at Sidley & Austin in Chicago. Professor Speta previously published several articles in the area of telecommunications law including Handicapping the Race for the Last Mile?: A Critique of Open Access Rules for Broadband Platforms and Tying, Essential Facilities, and Network Externalities: A Comment on Piraino.
MARK COOPER, Open Access to the Broadband Internet: Technical and Economic Discrimination in Closed, Proprietary Networks. B.A., City College of New York; M.A., University of Maryland; Ph.D., Yale University. Mark Cooper is the Research Director at the Consumer Federation of America and the President of Citizens Research. In addition to his participation with these consumer groups, Dr. Cooper has testified in front of congressional committees concerning consumers' rights and usage of telecommunications products.
JOHN F. DUFFY, The FCC and the Patent System: Progressive Ideals, Jacksonian Realism, and the Technology of Regulation. A.B., Harvard College; J.D., University of Chicago. John F. Duffy is an Associate Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he teaches courses in administrative law, patent law, torts, and constitutional law. Following his graduation from law school, Professor Duffy clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. He also served as an attorney-advisor for the United States Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, where he practiced in separation of powers, First Amendment, government ethics, immigration, and administrative law. Professor Duffy served as a law clerk for the Hon. Antonin Scalia of the Unites States Supreme Court, and later practiced with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burlington, specializing in appellate litigation, administrative law, communications regulation, and intellectual property. Professor Duffy has authored several articles on administrative law and telecommunications. Professor Duffy was also a visiting professor at the College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law during the Fall 1999 term.
JOSEPH D. KEARNEY, Will The FCC Go the Way Of The ICC? B.A., Yale University; J.D. Harvard University. Joseph D. Kearney is an Assistant Professor of Law at Marquette University. Prior to entering academe, Professor Kearney clerked for the Hon. Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court, and also practiced law for six years at Sidley & Austin. Professor Kearney's teaching and writing interests include telecommunications law and administrative law.
YOCHAI BENKLER, Net Regulation: Taking Stock and Looking Forward. LL.B., Tel-Aviv University; J.D., Harvard University. Yochai Benkler is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Information Law Institute at the New York University School of Law, where he teaches courses in property, communications law, and law in the information society and economy. Prior to teaching, Professor Benkler clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and practiced law in the corporate group of the Boston firm Ropes & Gray. Professor Benkler has authored a book on electronic communications and the law, and more recently, several articles addressing various issues affecting the internet, including Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure of the Public Domain and Overcoming Agoraphobia: Building the Commons of the Digitally Networked Environment.
PAUL SCHIFF BERMAN, Cyberspace and the State Action Debate: The Cultural Value of Applying Constitutional Norms to "Private" Regulation. A.B., Princeton University; J.D., New York University. Paul Schiff Berman is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law where he teaches in the areas of cyberlaw, civil procedure, copyright, and the cultural analysis of law. Professor Berman served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Berman's publications include The Internet, Community Definition, and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction (forthcoming) and Panel Summary: The Law and Culture of Cyberspace (forthcoming).