8:30 am - 3:00 pm
January 8, 2016
Holeman Lounge
National Press Club
555 13th St. NW
Washington, DC

Robert E. Kahn will be the keynote luncheon speaker for the event. Kahn is the co-creator of TCP/IP, the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the internet. He is currently CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives.

Registration and a continental breakfast will begin at 8:30am, with the program starting at 9:00am. Questions be should directed to Ashley Benjamin at abenjamin@techpolicyinstitute.org. Members of the press should contact Amy Smorodin at asmorodin@techpolicyinstitute.org.

Presenters:

Timothy Brennan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Paper: The Post-Internet Order Ecosystem: Lessons from the Pre- Internet Order Experience

Keith Hylton, Boston University School of Law
Paper: Law, Social Welfare, and Net Neutrality

Michael Katz, University of California, Berkeley
Paper: TBA

John Mayo, Georgetown University
Paper: The Evolution of “Competition”: Lessons for 21st Century Telecommunications Policy

Roger Noll, Stanford University
Paper: Incentives to Invest in the Debate over Net Neutrality Rules

Christopher Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Paper: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Net Uniformity: Towards a Better Implementation of Nondiscrimination and Interconnection

 

Discussants:

Michelle Connolly, Duke University

Shane Greenstein, Harvard Business School

David Sappington, University of Florida

Lawrence White, New York University