Spectrum Allocation Conference

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Spectrum Policy:
Property or Commons?
Stanford Law School
March 1-2, 2003

Sponsored by:
Thomas Hazlett, the Manhattan Institute, and
Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
Full conference details and registration at:
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/

Highlights:

**A moot court where  "property"  proponents Thomas Hazlett and Professor
Gerald R. Faulhaber  will debate "commons" proponents Professor Lawrence
Lessig and Professor Yochai Benkler about which architecture most
effectively promotes efficiency and innovation. This moot court will honor
Nobel Prize winning economist Ronald Coase, who criticized the FCC's
spectrum policy in 1959, arguing that rules preempting private ownership of
spectrum led to catastrophic inefficiencies in the market. The Judges will
include FCC Chairman Michael Powell, renowned economist Harold Demsetz, and
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski.

**Professor Yochai Benkler, from NYU Law School, presenting a proposal to
treat spectrum as a commons with comments by Professors Gerald R. Faulhaber,
former FCC Chief economist, Professor David Farber, former FCC technologist,
Professor Howard Shelanski, former FCC Chief Economist, and J. Gregory
Sidak, Director of AEI's Telecommunications Deregulation Project.

**Presentations of two property based proposals for regulating spectrum,
including "A Proposal for a Rapid Transition to Market Allocation of
Spectrum" from the FCC Office of Plans and Policy and a paper by Thomas
Hazlett of the Manhattan Institute, with comments by Dewayne Hendricks, CEO
of the The Dandin Group, Tim Shepard, and Kevin Werbach, former Counsel for
New Technology Policy at the FCC.

**Dr. David P. Reed explaining what's different about emerging spectrum
technologies? Why do they present new regulatory issues? what's new, and
just why that should matter.

**Lunch panel with presentations on a number of business models for
utilizing spectrum under both property and commons regulatory regimes
including mesh networks and Community wireless networking.

** Sunday Workshop on "Spectrum Etiquette" where participants will explore
whether the unlicensed spectrum band needs etiquette rules at this time? Or
should the FCC leave the space alone?

Full conference details and registration at:
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/

Registration:

 Corporate ($695)
 Academic/Non-Profit/Government ($195)
 Student ($50)
 Press (free, but must register)

CLE credit available
-- 
Lauren Gelman, Esq.
Assistant Director
Center for Internet and Society

Stanford Law School
Crown Quadrangle
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610

(ph) 650-724-3358
(fax) 650-723-4426
gelman () stanford edu


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