session 3. international telecommunications law.

Session 3 looks at the telecommunications rules at the international level. This entails an analysis of the law and policies of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which happens to be the oldest intergovernmental organization, as well as an enquiry into the rules related to satellite communications. We will also explore how the communications rules have changed over time and how new regulatory models, which move away from the traditional inter-national cooperation, have emerged.

Reading materials 
Walden, International Telecommunications
MacKinnon, United Nations and the Internet: It's Complicated, Foreign Policy, August 2012

Optional:
Palfrey and Gasser, Interop, chapter 1
Benkler, The Wealth of Networks, chapter 11
Burri, Defining Regulatory Objectives for Contemporary Electronic Communications: Between a Rock and a Hard Place 12 IJCLP (2008): 274-312

Here are the slides for session 3.