Internet & Communications Law

Old-School/New-School Speech Regulation

Governments develop new techniques for controlling and surveilling speech

• Jack M. Balkin

First Amendment Common Sense

The First Amendment doesn't protect Internet service providers from regulation

• Susan Crawford

Verizon v. FCC

D.C. Circuit Holds that Federal Communications Commission Violated Communications Act in Adopting Open Internet Rules.

The “New” New York Times: Free Speech Lawyering in the Age of Google and Twitter

The First Amendment moves beyond the courts

• Marvin Ammori

Guru Denim Inc. v. Abu-Harb

WIPO Arbitrators Uphold Conjunctive View of Bad Faith Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.

Joffe v. Google, Inc.

Ninth Circuit Holds that Intercepting Unencrypted Wi-Fi Broadcasts Violates the Wiretap Act.

Technological Determinism and Its Discontents

A critique of interventionist approaches to telecommunications regulation

• Christopher S. Yoo

Flava Works, Inc. v. Gunter

Seventh Circuit Holds that “Social Bookmarking” of Infringing Content Alone Is Insufficient to Support Grant of Preliminary Injunction.

Enabling Television Competition in a Converged Market