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Robert Corn-Revere is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Hogan & Hartson LLP, specializing in First Amendment and communications law. He was a legal advisor to former FCC commissioner James H. Quello, and a former chief counsel of the Commission. He teaches at the Institute for Communications Law Studies at the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America. Kevin M. Goldberg is an associate with the firm of Cohn and Marks in Washington, D.C., who specializes in First Amendment and constitutional law issues. He received his J.D. with High Honors from The George Washington University National Law Center in 1995, where he was also the recipient of the Imogene Williford Constitutional Law Award. Paul McMasters is the First Amendment Ombudsman of The Freedom Forum in Arlington, Va. A 31-year veteran of journalism, he served previously as executive director of The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center and as associate editorial director of USA Today. He is a former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists. Robert M. O'Neil has, since 1990, been Founding Director of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville. He is also a professor of law at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses in free speech and press, including seminars on First Amendment and the arts and free expression in cyberspace. J. Laurent Scharff is a communications attorney based in Reston, Va. He is a former partner of Reed Smith Shaw & McClay in Washington, D.C. He also served as general counsel of the Radio-Television News Directors Association in Washington. Richard M. Schmidt, Jr. has served as general counsel of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and Washington counsel for The Association of American Publishers, Inc., since 1969. Of counsel to the Washington, D.C., law firm of Cohn and Marks, Mr. Schmidt is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Press Foundation. Rodney A. Smolla is the George Allen Professor of Law at the T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond. Previously he was a law professor and director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the College of William and Mary. A graduate of Yale University and Duke Law School, he has authored three treatises and several other books, and co-authored a casebook on constitutional law. Daniel E. Troy specializes in constitutional and appellate litigation at the Washington, D.C., firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding. He is also an associate scholar of legal studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Troy has published widely on the subject of commercial speech and on other constitutional issues. Kurt Wimmer is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Covington and Burling, where he focuses on media, telecommunications, and Internet law. He chairs the firm's Information Technology and Internet Practice Group, representing new media, television, on-line services, and new telecommunications providers. He is also vice-chair of the Libel Defense Resource Center's Cyberspace Committee. Laurence H. Winer is a professor of law at Arizona State University College of Law, specializing in media law, constitutional law, and legal ethics. Prof. Winer received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. (all in mathematics) from Boston University, and received his law degree from Yale Law School. He is a former editor in chief of the Jurimetrics Journal of Law, Science and Technology. Harvey L. Zuckman is Director of The Institute for Communications Law Studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is a professor of law at the university's Columbus School of Law, and has written extensively on First Amendment and media law subjects. Prof. Zuckman is the co-author of Modern Communication Law, a multi-volume treatise, and Mass Communications Law, a widely used student text. The Editor: Richard T. Kaplar is Vice President of The Media Institute in Washington, D.C. He has written, edited, or produced over 35 books and monographs on a variety of First Amendment and communications policy topics. Mr. Kaplar is the author of Advertising Rights: The Neglected Freedom, and co-author of The Government Factor: Undermining Journalistic Ethics in the Information Age. |
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