January 25, 2008
Net Neutrality Symposium at USF and on Your PC

Hey, what are you doing tomorrow? That sounds nice, but have you considered all the expected flooding around the bay area? You should head up to dryland at the University of San Francisco atop Lone Mountain to see this conference being put on by the University of San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Bulletin: "The Toll Roads? The Legal and Political Debate Over Net Neutrality."
Come and see NN guru Tim Wu, Art Brodsky, Richard Clarke, Lawrence Spiwak, and a host of others. Why should you care about Network Neutrality? Here's why.
Al Gore took the initiative in creating the Internet during his service in the United States Congress for YOUR benefit. You should return the favor by showing an interest in how it's run (at least until the day the United Nations takes it over or Cyberdyne Systems finally gets SkyNet up). And if you're a lawyer, this is a painless way to get tons of MCLE credit. See you there! If you can't make it to the campus, then check it out on your PC via uStream starting at 8:30 AM.
More details, after the jump.
Scheduled to appear:
Timothy Wu
Professor, Columbia Law School
Richard Clarke
AT&T
Lawrence Spiwak
Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal &
Economic Public Policy Studies
Moderator: David Franklyn
Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law
William Taylor
NERA Economic Consulting
Mark Cooper
Consumer Federation of America
George Ford
Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal &
Economic Public Policy Studies
Scott Wallsten
American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Joint Center
Moderator: Steven Alter
Professor, University of San Francisco
School of Business and Management Scott Cleland
Founder of Precursor, LLC and NetCompetition.org
Kevin Bankston
Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Bob Frankston
Net Neutrality Squad, Project of People for Internet Responsibility
Colette Vogele
Vogele and Associates
Moderator: Susan Freiwald
Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law Robert Frieden
Pioneers Chair in Telecommunications, Pennsylvania State University
Jonathan Aronson
Executive Director, University of Southern California
Annenberg Center for Communication
Art Brodsky
Communications Director, Public Knowledge
Heather Hudson
Director, Telecommunications Management and Policy Program,
School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco
Moderator: Eric Goldman
Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law
Symposium staff:
CHRISTINA GAGNIER, ERIK SMITH, ANDREA REYNA, AMY MORGANSTERN, ATHENA JOHNS, and ROXANNA WATROUS


Amusingly, the conference is charging different prices to different attendees, which is kind of the opposite of net neutrality.
Hilarious, I know.
Just an 85% discount for law students. Seems fair. Reminds me of that Dilbert strip:
Dilbert: "Why are you counting law students as 2/10ths of a person?"
Catbert: "It doesn't fall to zero until they pass the bar."
I'm thinking that if they barred admittance to people who were against NN, then that were be ironic.
somthing like this:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE4D7133EF934A1575AC0A9619C8B63