Editor's note.

AuthorWarner, R. Matthew

Welcome to the 58th Volume of the Federal Communications Law Journal, the nation's premier journal in communications law and the official law journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association. The Journal seeks to present timely and important analysis in communications law and policy, and this Issue is no exception.

Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt and Former Deputy Chief Economist Gregory Rosston begin this Issue with recommendations to Congress on how to improve communications regulation. This Article is especially pertinent as Congress convenes at the beginning of the year. Complimenting the first Article, Jerry Ellig provides an economic analysis of several telecommunications regulatory policies, highlighting current inefficiencies. The third Article, by Randolph May, takes aim at the obsolete constructs of the 1996 Telecommunications Act and argues for a new paradigm based on consumer welfare. Fourth, Thomas Lookabaugh, Patrick Ryan, and Douglas Sicker recommend a self-regulatory framework for the upcoming VolP era, instead of government regulation, and suggest that such a framework can be done practically through advanced certification. The final Article is from Brian Hill. Hill tackles the challenge proposed by the Third Circuit in Prometheus Radio Project and suggests an Index that reflects diversity of ownership better than the current alternatives.

The Comment in this Issue is from Torrence Lewis, a recent graduate of Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington. Lewis revisits the tradition of denying public access to jury deliberations and suggests that awarding a limited right would preserve the justification for denial while improving the public's faith in deliberations. Finally, Professor Jeffrey Hart reviews Hernan Galperin's New Television, Old Politics: The Transition to Digital TV in the United States and Britain.

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