About the Director

Allen S. Hammond, IV, is Professor of Law at the Santa Clara University School of Law, Director of the Broadband Institute of California and Director of the Law and Public Policy Program at the Center for Science Technology and Society at Santa Clara University.  He is a graduate of Grinnell College (B.A., 1972), the University of Pennsylvania School of Law (J.D., 1975), and the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania (M.A., 1977).

His prior positions include: Attorney at the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy and Program Manager at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (1977-79); General Counsel for WJLA-TV (1979-82); Consultant and Lecturer at Howard University (1982-83); Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law (1983-85); Senior Attorney at the Media Access Project (1983-85); Senior Attorney at MCI Communications Corporation/Satellite Business Systems (1985-87); Associate General Counsel at MCI Communications Corporation (1988-89); and Director of New York Law School's Communications Media Center, and Professor of Law at New York Law School (1989-1997) where he became the first African American tenured at the school.

Professor Hammond maintains a strong scholarly interest in issues concerning access to mass media technology and information. Some of his articles in this area include: Reflections on the Myth of Icarus in the Age of Information, 19 Santa Clara Computer and High Tech. L.J. 407 (2003); The FCC’s Third Report on Broadband Deployment: Inequitable, Untimely and Unreasonable, 24 Hastings Comm/Ent. L.J. 539 (2002); The Digital Divide in the New Millennium, 20 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 135 (2002); Standing at the Edge of the Digital Divide, in The State of Black America (National Urban League 1998); "The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Codifying the Digital Divide, 50 Fed. Comm. L.J. 179 (December 1997); "Universal Access to Infrastructure and Information," 45 De Paul Law Review, 1067 (1996); "Regulating the Multi-Media Chimera: Electronic Speech Rights in the Era of Media Convergence," 21 Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal 1, (1995); "Private Networks, Public Speech: Constitutional Speech Dimensions of Access to Private Networks," 55 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 1085, (Summer 1994); and "Regulating Broadband Communications Networks," 9 Yale Journal on Regulation 181 (1992).

Professor Hammond is the immediate past president of the Alliance for Public Technology, and a member of the SBC Telecommunications Advisory Panel. In addition, Professor Hammond has advised community based organizations throughout California including the California NAACP, the California Community Technology Policy Group, the California Small Business Association and the Great Valley Center.  Professor Hammond has also addressed and/or worked with the Community Technology Foundation of California, the Hispanic Association for Corporate Responsibility, One Hundred Black Men (Albany, New York), the National Urban League, and the national NAACP on methods for creating sustainable telecommunications infrastructure in communities.