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Luncheon Series Webcast: Barbara van Schewick

The necessity of network neutrality regulation is one of the hottest topics in telecommunications policy today. Barbara van Schewick will talk about the economic merits of proposals to introduce network neutrality rules into telecommunications law: Do network providers have an incentive to discriminate against independent applications, content or portals? If there is a threat of discrimination, what are the consequences for innovation on the Internet, and why should we care? Do the benefits of regulating network providers justify the costs?

We will begin webcasting her talk at 12:30pm.  

You can tune in here:  http://h2odev.law.harvard.edu:8000/
. You can also join us for discussion in our IRC channel at irc://irc.freenode.net/#berkman. If you're unfamiliar with IRC, click here for a short how-to.

Barbara van Schewick, a lawyer and computer scientist, is a Senior Researcher at the Telecommunication Networks Group, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Berlin, Germany, and a Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School.