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Course Literature

Required Reading

I. Walden & J. Angel (eds.), Telecommunications Law and Regulation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 2nd edition).

• Chapter 1: Telecommunications Law and Regulation An Introduction

All (19 pages)

• Chapter 2: The Economics of Telecommunications Regulation

All except for paragraphs 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.7.3 (40 pages)

• Chapter 4: European Union Communications Law

All (42 pages)

• Chapter 5: Authorization and Licensing

All except for paragraph 5.3.3 (34 pages)

• Chapter 6: Access and Interconnection

All except for paragraphs 6.3.2, 6.3.4, 6.5.2 (33 pages)

• Chapter 7: Telecommunications Contracts: Outsourcing

All, but UK examples should be read only focusing on the broad lines (26 pages)

• Chapter 8: Competition Law in Telecommunications

All except for paragraphs 8.2, 8.7.1, 8.7.2, 8.8.3 (43 pages)

• Chapter 9: Telecommunications, Intellectual Property, and Standards

All (34 pages)

• Chapter 12: The International Regulatory Regime

All(37 pages)

• Chapter 13: Overview of US Telecommunications Law All except for paragraph 13.14; only skim paragraph 13.2 (72 pages)

• Chapter 15: Designing Regulatory Frameworks for Developing Countries

All except for paragraphs 15.6–15.7 (24 pages)

Total pages: ca. 404

[NB: When reading Walden & Angel, it is important to focus most carefully on (i) those parts which describe international and EU/EC instruments; and (ii) those parts which treat ICT-related issues. Descriptions of national examples are, in general, to be read much more cursorily.]

D. MacLean (ed.), Internet Governance: A Grand Collaboration, ICT Task Force Series No. 5 (New York: United Nations, 2004) – also available here

• Section 1, pp. 22–28
• Section 2, pp. 31–52, 65–70
• Section 3, pp. 73–99, 100–121, 122–161
• Section 4, pp. 183–226

Total pages: ca. 140

Supplementary Reading

• C. Koenig, A. Bartosch & J.-D. Braun (eds.), EC Competition and Telecommunications Law: A Practitioner’s Guide (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002).
• P.L. Nihoul & P.B. Rodford: EU Electronic Communications Law: Competition and Regulation in the European Telecommunications Market (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
• A. Thierer & C.W. Crews (eds.), Who Rules the Net? Internet Governance and Jurisdiction (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2003).
• A.M. Froomkin, “Habermas@Discourse.Net: Toward a Critical Theory of Cyberspace”, Harvard Law Review, 2003, vol. 116, no. 3, pp. 749–873.
• Papers for Symposium on Internet Governance, Loyola Law Review, 2003, vol. 36, no. 3.
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), The Public Voice WSIS Sourcebook: Perspectives on the World Summit on the Information Society (Washington, DC: EPIC, 2004).
• J.M.A.E.A. Caral, “Lessons from ICANN: Is self-regulation of the Internet fundamentally flawed?”, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 2004, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1–31.