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The University of Nebraska College of Law's Second Annual Space and Telecommunications Law Conference will take place in Washington D.C. on November 19-20, 2009. The conference, supported by the American Branch of the International Law Association, will cover "Space, Telecommunications, and Cyber Law in the Transatlantic Arena: Comparison, Competition, and Cooperation." The first day of the conference (Nov. 19) will focus on telecommunications law issues and will feature speakers such as Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the office of Secretary Clinton, Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy Chief of the Technology Office for Policy at the White House, and David Vladeck, Director of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, among others. The second day of the conference (Nov. 20) will focus on space law and will include speakers such as Alan Ladwig, Senior Advisory to the Administrator at NASA, Dick Obermann, Director of the House Subcommittee on Space-invited, and Brian Nilsson, Director of Non-Proliferation at the National Security Council among several others.
This conference will be held at the Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue in Washington, D.C.. You can register by visiting our website at http://spaceandtelecomlaw.unl.edu.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
SECOND ANNUAL WASHINGTON, D.C. SPACE AND TELECOM LAW
CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 19-20, 2009
WASHINGTON COURT HOTEL
525 New Jersey Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
With the Support of the American Branch of the International Law Association
“Space, Telecommunications, & Cyber Law in the Transatlantic Arena: Comparison, Competition, & Cooperation”
For full agenda and registration, go to http://spaceandtelecomlaw.unl.edu
NOVEMBER 19: Telecommunications/Cyber Law Day
Keynote Opening Address
Alec Ross U.S. State Department, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the office of Secretary Clinton Keynote Conversation Between Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy Chief Technology Office for Policy, White House Tim Wu, Professor, Columbia Law School
Lunch Keynote Address
David Vladeck Director, Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission
Panels on
- Broadband Competition & Trade Policy in Europe and the U.S.
- Communications as a Civil Right
- Cyberwarfare
Other Featured Speakers Include:
Daniel J. Weitzner, NTIA, Jan Malinowski, Council of Europe, Bertrand Vandeputte, Head of Broadband Unit at ARCEP, France, Lauri Allman, former Estonian Undersecretary of Defense, Derek Jinks, U.S. Naval War College, Ben Scott, Free Press, Jeremie Zimmermann, La Quadrature Du Net, Debroah Lathen, British Telecom, Erzsebet Fitori, European Competitive Telecommunications Association, Maeve Dion, George Mason, Maj. Vicki A. Belleau, USAF, 24th Air Force, among others
NOVEMBER 20: Space Law Day
Includes Morning Keynote Address by Alan Ladwig, Senior Advisor to the Administrator, NASA
Space Tourism Panel including Marc Holtzapfel (Legal Counsel, Virgin Galactic), Laura Montgomery (Senior Attorney FAA), Frans von der Dunk (Professor of Law, University of Nebraska) and others International Space Station Panel including Jay Steptoe (Associate GC for
International, NASA), Dick Obermann (Director, House Subcommittee on Space-invited)
and others
Military-Civil-Commercial Cooperation Panel including: Cortney Graham (NASA OGC), June Edwards (formerly NASA/USSTRACOM), Tim Hughes (GC SpaceXinvited), Fred Campbell (President ,Wireless Communications Association); Henry Hertzfeld (Professor, George Washington University Space Policy Institute)
Afternoon Keynote Address by Brian Nilsson (Off the Record), Director of Non-Proliferation, National Security Council (invited) ITAR/Export Control Panel including Tom Moore (Professional Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee –invited), John Ordway (Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe), Franceska Schroeder (Fish & Richardson), Dennis Burnett (VP Trade Policy and Export Controls, EADS North America), and Olivier Colaitis (Director Climate Change, ThalesAleniaSpace).
