Michael Botein is founding Director of the Communications Media Center at New York University Law School and former co-Director of CTIS at Columbia. His expertise lies in international telecommunications law, the regulation of cable television and new technologies. He has been consultant to the FCC and the Administrative Conference of the United States. He has been Visiting Professor of the Faculte de Droit, University of Melbourne Law School, and at Hebrew University School of Law. He is widely published in the field and co-author of International Telecommunications in the United States (1987) and Cases and Materials on Regulation of the Electronic Mass Media (forthcoming).