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Howard Shelanski

Howard Shelanski graduated from the UC Berkeley Boalt School of Law in 1992 and received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley the following year. After graduating from Boalt, he clerked for Justice Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Judge Louis Pollack, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and Justice Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Boalt faculty, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd & Evans. Shelanski’s research focuses on telecommunications law, regulation and antitrust. His recent publications include “The Speed Gap: Broadband Infrastructure and Electronic Commerce” in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (1999); “Economic Welfare and Telecommunications Regulation: The E-Rate Policy of Universal Service Subsidies” and “Administrative Creation of Property Rights to Radio Spectrum” in the Journal of Law and Economics, with Peter Huber (1998). During the 1999-2000 academic year, Shelanski was on leave to serve as chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission. During the 1998-99 academic year, he served as a senior economist to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

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Seminar speeches given by Howard Shelanski:
Covering the Press: Ethics, Values and Social Issues
April 24, 2002
What Do the Networks Owe the Public? Broadcast news was once considered a basic public-service responsibility in exchange for free use of the airwaves. But many argue television news has become a vast commercial market place run by companies more interested in profits than public service. What can and should be done to ensure that broadcasters are serving the public interest?

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"I learned so much. This conference has energized me to go back to my newsroom ready to write story ideas that I learned here. This is a wonderful crash course on Latinos and would recommend it to any reporter who deals with numbers, social issues, education, immigration and public policy."
- Leonel Sanchez, San Diego Union Tribune
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