PUBLISHED:May 14, 2015
Benjamin testifies before House Energy and Commerce Committee on FCC reform
Professor Stuart Benjamin testified on Capitol Hill on May 15 on proposals to reform some processes of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Benjamin, the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Research, and co-director of the Center for Innovation Policy, testified before the Communications and Technology subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in its hearing titled “FCC Reauthorization: Improving Commission Transparency.” An expert in telecommunications law, the First Amendment, and administrative law, Benjamin served as the FCC’s first Distinguished Scholar from 2009 to 2011. He has written extensively on telecommunications law, First Amendment law, and administrative law, and is the co-author of Telecommunications Law and Policy, a legal casebook now in its fourth edition.
Benjamin’s written testimony is available here.
All the experts testifying before the committee have strong Duke connections. Joining Benjamin on the panel are Randolph J. May ’71, president of the Free State Foundation and former associate general counsel at the FCC, and Robert M. McDowell T’85, a partner in the communications and telecommunications practice at Wiley Rein and former FCC commissioner.
Benjamin has written extensively on telecommunications law, First Amendment law, and administrative law, and is the co-author of Telecommunications Law and Policy, a legal casebook now in its fourth edition.