Event Description
Deadline to Register: June 12
Do not miss this spectacular annual
event! Attorneys, consultants and lobbyists practicing in the dynamic and
rapidly evolving areas of Communications and Technology will want to attend the annual MSBA Communications Law Annual
Forum. The Forum will feature a diverse selection of speakers from industry,
private practice and government and feature Professor Allen Hammond (Director of the Broadband
Institute of California) and Professor Daniel Lyons of Boston College Law
School.
The following topics will be highlighted:
- Net Neutrality
- Restoring Internet Freedom Order from the FCC
- FTC Enforcement Model
Schedule:
8:00 - 8:30am – Breakfast and Welcome
Communications Law Section Chair Tony
Mendoza
President of Mendoza Law
8:30 - 9:30am – What is Net Neutrality and Why
Should We Care?
The talk will explore the statutory
and administrative law rationales for the classification and regulation of
telephone (common carriage), cable (limited speech rights) and their relationship to
the internet (net neutrality). The talk will also address the potential
impact of the classification decision on the economy and representative
democracy in Minnesota.
Professor Allen Hammond
, Professor at Santa Clara
University School of Law, Director of the Broadband Institute of California.
9:30 - 10:30am – A Review of the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom
(RIF) Order.
Get beyond the headlines, slogans, and
rhetoric. What does the Restoring Internet Freedom Order actually say? We
will review all of the key aspects of the Restoring Internet Freedom
Order
Communications Law Section Chair
Tony Mendoza President of Mendoza Law
10:30 - 11:30am – Responses to the RIF Order.
There have been reactions to
the RIF Order at all levels of government. Our panel will review federal,
state, and local responses to the RIF Order, and provide perspectives on the
merits of various prospective approaches to regulation of net neutrality
principles. Panelists include Jim
Beattie (Director of Government Relations & General Counsel at
BEVCOMM), Allen
Hammond Professor at Santa Clara
University School of Law, and Minnesota Sen. Ron Latz
(D-MN).
11:30 - 11:45 am– Break
11:45 - 12:45 pm – Keynote Presentation
"Untangling the Web of Net Neutrality" &
Lunch
A brief history of net neutrality, the policy
arguments for and against the 2015 order and the 2018 repeal, and an assessment
of recent efforts to re-enact net neutrality rules at the state level.
Daniel
Lyons is an Associate Professor of Boston College Law School, where he
researches and writes in the areas of telecommunications, Internet policy, and
administrative law. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard
Law School, he clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall on the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals and worked as an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Munger,
Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles before joining the BC faculty in 2009.
Professor Lyons is also a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute,
where he has written over 100 blog posts on tech policy issues.
12:45 - 1:45 pm – The FTC Enforcement Model.
Our esteemed panelists will speak on the
Deceptive Trade Practices, Internet Privacy, and Recent Enforcement Actions related to
the FTC Enforcement Model. This portion of the program will examine
privacy from a Federal Trade Commission perspective including FTC enforcement actions,
a summary of the 2011 Facebook/FTC Consent Decree, consideration of how the
Consent Decree might apply to the Cambridge Analytica issues and the relevance
of privacy standards set by the European Union General Data Protection
Regulation. Panelists include Keynote speaker Prof.
Daniel Lyons, Milda
Hedblom (Professor, Augsburg University;
Lawyer and Consultant, Dain International) and Shannon
Heim.
CLE Credits:
5.0 Standard CLE Credits approved | Event Code:
258749
Cost:
MSBA Section Members: $75
MSBA Non-Section Members: $85
Non-MSBA
Members: $95
Non-Profits/Government Employees: $25 (must register by phone or
mail)
Law Students: $25
Remote
Participation:
Remote participation is NOT available for this event.
Want more information about the Communications
Law Section?
To register with a check, please mail in this
registration form.
Need to cancel? Please see our cancellation
policy.
Questions? Contact Kara Haro |
612-278-6329
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environment in which all members can participate fully. If you need reasonable
accommodations to participate in this event, please notify Kara Haro
. Please provide at least 72 hours prior to the event to
allow sufficient time to make arrangements.