Articles Internet Governance and Democratic Legitimacy by Olivier Sylvain Even as the Internet goes pop, federal policymakers continue to surrender their statutory obligation to regulate communications in the first instance to extralegal nongovernmental organizations comprised of technical experts. The FCC’s… Read More »Volume 62; 2009-2010 • Issue 2
Introduction Advancing Consumer Interest Through Ubiquitous Broadband: The Need for a New Spectrum by Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker Comprehensive and long-term spectrum reform can play a critical role in the FCC’s development of a National Broadband Plan and in its… Read More »Volume 62; 2009-2010 • Issue 1
FCBA Distinguished Speaker Series The Roberts Court and Freedom of Speech by Erwin Chemerinsky This speech was given by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky in December 2010 as part of the FCBA’s Distinguished Speaker Series. In the speech, Dean Chemerinsky offers his… Read More »Volume 63; 2010-2011 • Issue 3
Symposium Introduction Rough Consensus and Running Code: Integrating Engineering Principles into Internet Policy Debates by Christopher S. Yoo Articles The End-to-End Argument and Application Design: The Role of Trust by David D. Clark and Marjory S. Blumenthal Policy debates about… Read More »Volume 63; 2010-2011 • Issue 2
Essays from Time Warner Cable’s Research Program on Digital Communications The Challenge of Developing Effective Public Policy on the Use of Social Media by Youth by John Palfrey The Challenge of Increasing Civic Engagement in the Digital Age by Nicol… Read More »Volume 63; 2010-2011 • Issue 1
FCBA Distinguished Speaker Series WikiLeaks and the First Amendment by Geoffrey R. Stone In November 2010, Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks collaborated with major media organizations to release thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents. American soldier Bradley Manning stands accused of… Read More »Volume 64; 2011-2012 • Issue 3
Articles Of Burning Houses and Roasting Pigs: Why Butler v. Michigan Remains a Key Free Speech Victory More than a Half-Century Later by Clay Calvert More than fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its unanimous decision in Butler… Read More »Volume 64; 2011-2012 • Issue 2
Articles When Does F*** Not Mean F***?: FCC v. Fox Television Stations and a Call for Protecting Emotive Speech by W. Wat Hopkins The Supreme Court of the United States does not always deal cogently with nontraditional language. The most… Read More »Volume 64; 2011-2012 • Issue 1
Editor’s Note Commemoration The Federal Communications Law Journal at Sixty By Adrian Cronauer Essay Communications Policy Leadership for the Next Century By Commissioner Michael K. Powell Those of us involved in the communications field realize the dramatic changes and challenges… Read More »Volume 50; 1997-1998 • Issue 3
Editor’s Note Articles First Amendment Trump?: The Uncertain Constitutionalization of Structural Regulation Separating Telephone and Video By Susan Dente Ross The Cable Act of 1984 contained a “cross-ownership” ban, which prohibited telephone companies from entering the local cable video market.… Read More »Volume 50; 1997-1998 • Issue 2