Santa Clara University

Provost - Allen S Hammond Biography

undefinedAllen S. Hammond
Professor of Law
Program Director, Values in Design
Center for Science, Technology, and Society



Allen Hammond is a professor in the School of Law and holder of the Phil and Bobby Sanfilippo University Chair. He is also a director of the recently developed Broadband Institute in California. He is a graduate if Grinnell College, the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, and School of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He has held a variety of positions in the private and public sectors, including attorney and program manager at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; general counsel for WJLA-TV; consultant and lecturer at Howard University; visiting associate professor of law at Syracuse University; senior attorney, Media Access Project; senior attorney at MCI Communications Corporation/Satellite Business Systems; and associate general counsel at MCI Communications Corporation. He also has published extensively on media regulation and information technology topics. Professor Hammond teaches courses in Contracts, Cyberspace, Mass Communications and Telecommunications Law.


Phone: (408) 554-4078
E-mail: ahammond@scu.edu