ALLEN S. HAMMOND IV holds the Phil and Bobbie Sanfilippo Chair at Santa Clara University. A professor at Santa Clara Law since 1998, he serves as director of the Broadband Institute of California, is former President of the Alliance for Public Technology, director of the Law and Public Policy Program at the Center for Science Technology and Society at Santa Clara University, and is a board member and past chair of the AT&T Telecommunications Consumer Advisory Panel. He is the author of many articles and the editor, with Barbara S. Cherry and Stephen S. Wildman, of Making Universal Service Policy: Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999). He earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, his M.A. from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, and his B.A. from Grinnel College.

His prior positions include: Attorney and Program Manager, Minority Telecommunications Development Program, NTIA (1977-79); General Counsel, WJLA-TV (1979-82); Lecturer, Howard University (1982-83); Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law (1983-85); Senior Attorney, Media Access Project (1983-85); Senior Attorney, MCI Communications Corporation/Satellite Business Systems (1985-87); Assoc. General Counsel, MCI Communications Corp. (1988-89); and Director, New York Law School Communications Media Center, and Professor at New York Law School (1989-1997).

Contracts and a seminar in communications law entitled digital law.com. He teaches courses in Mass Communications, Cyberspace and Contracts Law.

Professor Hammond is Program Chair of Law and Public Policy, Center for Science Technology and Society at Santa Clara University; and a board member and past chair of the SBC Telecommunications Consumer Advisory Panel; as well as a past President and board member of the Alliance for Public Technology.

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