The Tower (Professors)
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Upright - Disruption. Conflict. Change. Sudden violent loss. Overthrow of an existing way of life. Major changes. Disruption of well-worn routines. Ruin and disturbance. Dramatic upheaval. change of residence or job sometimes both at once. Widespread repercussions of actions. In the end, enlightenment and freedom.
Ill Dignified or Reversed - Negativity. Restriction of desires and imprisonment. Less sever forms of the above. Drastic change that may rob the individual of freedom of expression. Sometimes bankruptcy and imprisonment. more usually imprisonment within a set of circumstances, which cannot currently be altered. Sudden changes out of one's control. Less sever forms of the above.
What do those looking down on us from atop the Ivory Tower make of the chaos in the streets? Leading academics will share their views on where we are all heading.
Susan Crawford, Professor, Cardozo Law School
Susan Crawford is Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, teaching cyberlaw and intellectual property law. She is also a Policy Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C, a Fellow with The Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and is active with the Internet Policy Project of the Aspen Institute. Crawford received her B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy.
Dale Hatfield, Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dale Hatfield is Adjunct Professor, Center for Advanced Engineering and Technology Education, University of Colorado. Prior to his current position, he was Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission and, immediately before that, he was Chief Technologist at the Agency. He retired from government service in 2000. Before joining the Commission in December 1997, he was CEO of Hatfield Associates, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado based multidisciplinary telecommunications consulting firm which he founded in 1982. Prior, Hatfield was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Deputy Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Eli Noam, Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University; Director , Columbia Institute for TeleInformation
Eli Noam has been Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School since 1976. He returned to Columbia In 1990, after having served for three years as Commissioner with the New York State Public Service Commission. He is also Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), a university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. In addition to leading CITI's research activities, Noam initiated the MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications, and Information at the Business School and the Virtual Institute of Information, an independent, web-based research facility. Besides the over 400 articles in economics, legal, communications, and other journals that Noam has written on subjects such as communications, information, public choice, public finance, and general regulation, he has also authored, edited, and co-edited some 25 books.
James Speta, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
James Speta is a Professor at the Northwestern University School of Law. He writes in telecommunications law and policy, as well as the related fields of antitrust, intellectual property, and administrative law. He is co-chair of the Regulatory Framework Working Group of the Digital Age Communications Project, sponsored by the Progress and Freedom Foundation. Prior to coming to Northwestern, Speta practiced for five years in the Chicago Office of Sidley, Austin, Brown and Wood, specializing in telecommunications and appellate matters. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Speta clerked in 1991-1992 for the Honorable Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Phil Weiser, Associate Professor of Law and Telecommunications, University of Colorado
Phil Weiser is an Associate Professor of Law and Telecommunications at the University of Colorado, where he also serves as the Executive Director of the Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program. Prior to joining to CU, Weiser was Senior Counsel to Joel Klein, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. He also served as a law clerk to Judge David M. Ebel of the Tenth Circuit and to United States Supreme Court Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Weiser teaches and writes in the areas of telecommunications and information policy and is the author (with Jon Nuechterlein) of "Digital Crossroads: American Tele"ommunications Policy in the Internet Age" (MIT Press).
Kevin Werbach, Professor, Wharton School of Business
Kevin Werbach is an independent technology analyst, consultant, and writer. He is the Contributing Editor of Release 1.0: Esther Dyson's Monthly Report, and co-organizer of the exclusive PC Forum conference. Previously, Werbach served as Counsel for New Technology Policy at the Federal Communications Commission, where he helped develop the United States Government's e-commerce policy and authored "Digital Tornado: The Internet and Telecommunications Policy."
