Legal Commentary

Obama FCC Transition Team

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Susan Crawford isn’t here in New Haven because she has just gotten a new and better gig on the Obama FCC transisiton team:

Science, Tech, Space and Arts Team Leads | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

FCC Review Team Leads

Susan Crawford is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, teaching communications law and internet law. She was a partner with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) until the end of 2002, when she left to become a legal academic. Ms Crawford recently ended her term as a member of the Board of Directors of ICANN.

Ken Werbach is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the organizer of the annual Supernova technology conference (http://www.supernova2009.com). His research explores the legal and business dynamics of information and communications technologies. Formerly, he served as Counsel for New Technology Policy at the FCC during the Clinton Administration. He has also edited Release 1.0, a renowned technology newsletter, and founded Supernova Group, a technology analysis and consulting firm.

Both of these are great choices!

May do a little special pleading, friends? Let’s reverse the Brand X decision — odds are this will do more to help net neutrality than any regulations could.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on November 15, 2008 (boomark / email).