Information, Communications, and Privacy Law
Information services and products constitute the world's largest and fastest-growing economic sector. Banking, insurance, air transportation, medicine, and even heavy industries such as automobile production--the bedrock, in other words, of the modern economy--have been thoroughly transformed by information technology. Now capable of performing previously unimaginable tasks, we are faced with new legal issues that arise almost faster than we can resolve the old ones. Because of the explosion in issues related to information law, the demand for graduates skilled in this field is enormous, and only likely to grow.
Curriculum
We offer a wide range of courses in information, communications, and privacy law, including a number of courses with an international emphasis.
Faculty
Many of our faculty teach courses relevant to information, communications, and privacy law. Professors Fred Cate, Roger Dworkin, Joshua Fairfield, Marshall Leaffer, and Kevin Collins have a particularly strong focus in the area.
Student Activities and Opportunities
We offer students a variety of other opportunities to gain valuable experience and study the field in more depth outside the classroom. For example, you could participate on our national telecommunications moot court team; extern at the Federal Communications Commission, Media Access Project, or other organizations; or compete in national writing competitions.
You might also want to work on the staff of the Federal Communications Law Journal, the official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association. Published three times a year, the journal examines a wide range of U.S. and international communications and information issues, including telecommunications, the First Amendment, broadcasting, telephony, computers, intellectual property, and policy making.
Students manage all aspects of the journal's operations, including selecting and editing material to be published, soliciting and training new members of the editorial board, maintaining the journal's Web site, overseeing the budget, and coordinating the relationship with members of the Federal Communications Bar Association. In addition, students write and edit their own work for publication.
Joint Degree Program
You might also want to consider earning a joint degree in law and either telecommunications or journalism.
Careers
Our graduates specializing in information, communications, and privacy law work in such varied settings as major law firms, the Federal Communications Commission, the Patent and Trademark Office, and business and industry associations around the world.
We have had great success in guiding our graduates into satisfying careers. The Office of Career Services will provide assistance at every step of your job search.