Stuart N. Brotman Honored with BEA Law & Policy Division Lifetime Achievement Award
Washington, D.C. – Stuart N. Brotman has been named the recipient of the second Broadcast Education Association Law & Policy Division Lifetime Achievement Award. The inaugural recipient in 2012 was former FCC Chairman Richard E. Wiley.
Stuart N. Brotman has extensive experience as a global executive, management consultant, international communications and media lawyer, university educator, and government policymaker. He has served in four Presidential administrations on a bipartisan basis, including roles as a founder of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; as an inaugural appointee of the Library of Congress Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel; as Chairman of the US-Israel Science and Technology Foundation; and as a member of the US Department of State Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.
He serves as a faculty member at Harvard Law School, where he teaches Entertainment and Media Law and serves as an adviser to the Law School’s Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law. He also is a faculty member in the Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy. He served as the first concurrent fellow in digital media at Harvard and MIT, at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Program on Comparative Media Studies, respectively.
During the 2012-13 academic year, he served as Professor of Communication in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. Brotman also served as the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communication Technologies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Research / Media and Communication Studies, at the University of Helsinki.
He is the editor of The Telecommunications Deregulation Sourcebook, a popular reference volume covering the broadcasting, cable television and telephone industries; Telephone Company and Cable Television Competition, a pioneering anthology dealing with technical, economic and regulatory aspects of broadband networks; and the author of Broadcasters Can Negotiate Anything, a best-selling management education book for radio and television executives published by the National Association of Broadcasters. He also is the author of Communications Law and Practice, the leading comprehensive treatise covering domestic and international common carrier and electronic mass media regulation, now in its 35th edition.
The award will be presented at BEA’s 2014 annual convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday, April 8, 2014.
