Series 17 to 200 claims please welcome christopher. [applause] our next panelist is the professor himself who wrote the book he is a graduate of notre dame where hes a runnerup valedictorian. But he made up for that when he went to Harvard Law School and won the fay diploma for being top student to graduate in his class. a its a lot easier. Hes been a lawyer and professor including back at harvard for a while. Currently at vanderbilt and the author of this book makes a compelling case as to the classaction mechanism and will hear more from him in a bit. Our moderator today is judge on the night circuit, he is a graduate, a korean immigrant to start with and came to this country and graduated from i believe cornell and also Harvard Law School. Round of applause for judge kenneth lee. [applause] thank you for the introductions. I think we will have a great debate here. We have two experts on class actions. Little bit of format, i will give professor fitzpatrick the floor and let him spea
Subcommittee on communications and technology. One of the key policy makers when it comes to telecommand case and policy. Congressman doyle, in this past year as the year comes to a close what has your subcommittee accomplished when it comes to telecommunication policy . Guest hello, peter. Weve been busy on the communications and technology subcommittee. Tomorrow we will be on the floor with stella. Something the senate had a hard time marking up a bill. We were able to mark up in my subcommittee and full committee and we will have that on the floor tomorrow on the suspension calendar and we look to pass that tomorrow and get that over to the senate. Obviously weve already done robo calls and that pesky little issue that americans have wanted us to do something about we passed the amended house bill and that is in the senate and we are waiting for the senate to take action on that. Obviously much earlier in the year we passed our Net Neutrality bill which sits in the senate and we are
The schedule we are going to start on time. The new time. On behalf of myself and bob bauer who is my supremely wise, talented and collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourth o year of the for. We are joined this year by another nyu law entity, the reef center on law and security, a nonpartisan multidisciplinary institute and the director, rachel, who is here has been invaluable in helping pull together the program for this afternoon. This b forum would not be possie without the generous support of sibley austin, a Renowned International law firm and so it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you, peter who is a partner in the chicago office. He knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district in illinois in the u. S. House of representatives for six terms, from 20072019. During that time he held a number of very significant positions. One of those most pertinent to wh
Society but i was also a believer in a tough approach to the soviet union which means i had ready 30 much at home in the Democratic Party at the time. You had pat point hand. You had Henry Jackson a great senator from Washington State and later on that element of the Democratic Party shrunk to nothingness. And as it did i was without a home. I remained generally without a political home. You could obviously fairly call me a neoconservative then. Host s been 18 years since the 1996 telecommute nations act was enacted by congress and signed by president clinton. Today on the communicators we are going to discuss that its goals and whether or not it should be rewritten rewritten. Joining us are two of the authors of the 1996 Telecommunications Act rick boucher who is a democrat from virginia served in congress from 1983 to 2011 and jack sub 3a republican in texas from 1981 to 97. Congressman feels what was your role in the development of the 96 pelka medications act . Guest it was actuall