NET NEUTRALITY 

AROUND THE WORLD:

Fundamental Right or Obstacle to Doing Business?

 

 

 

 

 

3-5 PM October 23, 2014

GWU Law School Tasher Great Room

 

In May, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in an effort to re-impose net neutrality obligations on broadband providers in a manner that would be upheld by the courts. Among the proposed rules is one that would prohibit fixed broadband providers from engaging in commercially unreasonable practices but that could accord these broadband providers the flexibility to negotiate deals with edge providers -- such as pay-for-priority deals -- on individualized terms. Around the same time, the European Parliament passed a major package of telecom law reforms with amendments protecting net neutrality. Meanwhile, Latin American countries like Brazil and Chile have recently taken the lead in enacting strong net neutrality laws. What are the implications of national net neutrality regulations for the future of the global Internet?

 

Moderator:

•  Dawn Nunziato, Professor, George Washington University Law School. Co-Director, Global Internet Freedom & Human Rights Project. Author of Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age

• Arturo Carrillo, Professor and Director, GW Law School International Human Rights Clinic. Co-Director, Global Internet Freedom & Human Rights Project.

 

Participants:

• Marvin Ammori, Affiliate Scholar, Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society (Position Paper)

• Jim Lamoureux, Senior Attorney, Microsoft

• Emma Llansó, Director, Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy and Technology

• Jeffrey Campbell, Senior Director, Technology and Trade Policy of Global Policy and Government Affairs, Cisco Systems

• Alberto Cerda, Professor in Law and Technology, University of Chile Law School and Founder & Director, Derechos Digitales; among others.  (Position Paper)

• Matthijs van Bergen, Legal Advisor at ICTRecht in Amsterdam and advisor to the Dutch NGO Bits of Freedom.  (Position Paper)