Information Technology and Legal Regulation: Promise and Pitfalls
 

The Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS) at Carnegie Mellon University is staging a conference, "Information Technology and Legal Regulation: Promise and Pitfalls -- A Summit Meeting on Law, Information Technology and Society," February 7-8, 2002 in Pittsburgh.  The keynote event for the conference will be the
following free, public session on Thursday, February 7, from 12:30-2:

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Keynote Colloquy: The Future of the Internet as a Universal Medium, or, Can
Public Policy Revive the Telecom Boom?

Reed E. Hundt, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company and Former Chairman,
Federal Communications Commission

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David J. Farber, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications and
Professor of Business and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania, and
Former Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission

In his memoir of FCC chairmanship, Reed E. Hundt, describes a "communications revolution" that "energized the entire American economy" and bore significant responsibility in the
1990s for "the miracle of low inflation, high growth, and continued
consumer confidence."  According to the former Chairman, a host of FCC
policies helped fuel the revolution by spurring entrepreneurship,
competition, and public interest benefits.  With the U.S. economy now in
recession and the telecom sector in the doldrums, Mr. Hundt and David J. Farber, Alfred Fitler Moore, address how the telecom boom can be resuscitated by public policy to make the Internet a universal medium.

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Other panels will combine cyberlawyers and Carnegie Mellon technologists discussing:
- Emerging E-Commerce Technologies and the Law
- Homeland Security and Cybercrime - Challenges and Opportunities in Law
and Technology
- The Future of Internet Governance
- Intellectual Property and New Technologies
- Legal Challenges of Large Data Sets
- Law and Standard-Setting Processes
- Challenges and Opportunities in Wireless Telecommunications
- Risk Management and E-Business Insurance Issues

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Information received from on 25 January 2002:

Peter M. Shane
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Public Policy and
Director, Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society
(InSITeS)
H. J. Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
412-268-5980
FAX:  412-268-5338
E-Mail:  pshane@andrew.cmu.edu