FCLJ Volume Archives

Editor’s Note Articles Antitrust Language Barriers: First Amendment Constraints on Defining an Antitrust Market by a Broadcast’s Language, and its Implications for Audiences, Competition, and Democracy by Catherine J.K. Sandoval This Article explores whether the language of a broadcaster’s program… Read More »Volume 60; 2007-2008 • Issue 3

Editor’s Note Articles The Two-Step Evidentiary and Causation Quandary for Medium-Specific Laws Targeting Sexual and Violent Content: First Proving Harm and Injury to Silence Speech, then Proving Redress and Rehabilitation Through Censorship by Clay Calvert This Article argues that legislators… Read More »Volume 60; 2007-2008 • Issue 2

Editor’s Note Commentary Expansion of Indecency Regulation by Hon. Kevin J. Martin, Adam G. Ciongoli, Robert W. Peters, Roger Pilon, & Hon. David B. Sentelle This is a transcript of the November 10, 2005, panel discussion at the National Lawyer’s… Read More »Volume 60; 2007-2008 • Issue 1

Editor’s Note Articles Sending Out an S.O.S.: Public Safety Communications Interoperability as a Collective Action Problem by Jerry Brito Lack of public safety communications interoperability is the result of what economist Mancur Olson called a collective action problem. In this… Read More »Volume 59; 2006-2007 • Issue 3

Editor’s Note Articles Does Video Delivered over a Telephone Network Require a Cable Franchise? by Robert W. Crandall, J. Gregory Sidak & Hal J. Singer This Article examines whether, on legal or policy grounds, video services provided over a telephone… Read More »Volume 59; 2006-2007 • Issue 2

Masthead Editor’s Note Article BROADCAST TECHNOLOGY AS DIVERSITY OPPORTUNITY: EXCHANGING MARKET POWER FOR MULTIPLEXED SIGNAL SETASIDES by Michael M. Epstein This Article proposes an access system based on a theory of quid pro quo: a bargained-for-exchange in which broadcasters would… Read More »Volume 59; 2006-2007 • Issue 1

Editor’s Note Keynote Speech Ten Years Under the 1996 Telecommunications Act by Reed Hundt Essays The 1996 Telecommunications Act: Ten Years Later by Pat Aufderheide Looking Backwards and Looking Forwards in Contemplating the Next Rewrite of the Communications Act by… Read More »Volume 58; 2005-2006 • Issue 3