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Weekly UpdatesWelcome to the third issue of the fifty-seventh volume of the Federal Communications Law Journal. A number of years have passed since September 11, and yet security issues continue to be at the forefront of public policy. The Editorial Board is proud to present an issue that highlights the intersection of national security issues with telecommunications regulation. This issue features a number of Articles by experts in both national security and telecommunications:
This issue is first introduced by Chairman Michael K. Powell, who served as Chairman of the FCC from January 22, 2001, until March of this year. Prior to being designated Chairman by President George W. Bush, Mr. Powell served as a Commissioner since 1997. It is a privilege to welcome Chairman Powell and each of the following experts to the pages of the Journal.
The first Article, by Jamie Gorelick, John Harwood, and Heather Zachary, analyzes the regulatory environment and the scope of post-9/11 changes in order to identify the issues that have arisen for both the government and industry participants. Jamie Gorelick is a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. She is Co-Chair of the Defense, National Security and Government Contracts Department, having previously served as a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission), as Deputy Attorney General of the United States and as General Counsel of the Department of Defense. John Harwood is also a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Mr. Harwood is Chair of the Communications and E-Commerce Department of the firm. Heather Zachary is an associate in the Communications and E-Commerce Department of the firm.
The second Article, by Christopher Guttman-McCabe, Amy Mushahwar, and Patrick Murck, reviews wireless public safety and homeland security initiatives in three phases and explores the evolution of homeland security regulation of the wireless industry. Christopher Guttman-McCabe is an Assistant Vice President of Regulatory Policy and Homeland Security at CTIA. Amy Mushahwar and Patrick Murck are third year law students at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law and Institute for Communications Law Studies certificate candidates.
In the third and final Article exploring national security and telecommunications, James A. Lewis analyzes the management and preservation of communications interception capabilities and their defense against potential service disruptions or intelligence activities in a period of integrated, global telecommunications enterprises where foreign ownership of, or participation in, national networks, is increasingly routine. Mr. Lewis is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and Public Policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research center in Washington, D.C. Before coming to CSIS, Lewis was a career diplomat who worked on a range of national security and technology related issues at the Departments of State and Commerce, the National Security Council, and with U.S. military commands.
This issue also features important Articles by both Robert Cannon and Mark Bannister. Mr. Cannon is Senior Counsel at the FCC, and is also Director of the educational nonprofit Cybertelecom. His Article addresses state regulation of Voice over Internet Protocol. Mr. Bannister is Chairman and Associate Professor of the Department of Information Networking and Telecommunications at Fort Hays State University. He is also a Senior Policy Fellow with the Docking Institute of Public Affairs. Mr. Bannister's Article analyzes universal service subsidies through the lenses of two recent FCC decisions and a Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service Recommended Decision. The third issue also includes a Note by third-year student Katherine Miltner on the Children's Internet Protection Act.
The third issue concludes with two book reviews. Kathleen Wallman reviews Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser's new book Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age, and Yolanda D. Edwards reviews Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society, by Anthony G. Wilhelm.
On behalf of the Volume 57 Editorial Board, I would like to thank
all of the Authors for their contributions and cooperation with us
during the editorial process. We are committed to providing our readers
with broad coverage of interesting and important communications issues,
and we appreciate the continued support of contributors and readers. The
Federal Communications Law Journal welcomes any questions and comments
concerning our publication and submissions concerning issues that are of
interest to the communications bar. The Journal can be contacted at
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Jennifer J. Monberg
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