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Charles Davidson

Director of the Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute
New York Law School

Charles M. Davidson is a Director of the Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute (ACLP) at New York Law School. Davidson oversees all aspects of the program, including its focus on broadband policy. The ACLP has published a number of papers and has hosted interdisciplinary public policy events on an array of broadband issues, with a particular emphasis on promoting broadband adoption. Davidson is currently co-authoring a series of papers for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that examine the many positive and the many potential impacts of broadband adoption on senior citizens, telemedicine, people with disabilities, and education and the many legal and policy challenges that must be addressed for the full potential of broadband to be realized.

Prior to joining the ACLP, Davidson served as a Commissioner on the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), the regulatory agency that oversees the state's telecommunications, energy, and water industries. Before serving on the PSC, Davidson held a variety of positions in government and the private sector. His government work included serving as the Executive Director of Florida's Information Technology Taskforce and as the Staff Director of the state's first Committee on Information Technology. In the private sector, Davidson was an attorney in the New York offices of Baker & McKenzie and subsequently Duane Morris. He also served as the Chairman of ITFlorida, a nonprofit organization that promotes innovation in the state's high-tech sector, and as a Special Professor at Hofstra University School of Law.

Davidson speaks and writes frequently on technology and public policy issues and has provided expert testimony before numerous state and federal bodies, including the U.S. House of Representatives and the FCC. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Davidson holds a Masters of Law in Trade Regulation from New York University, a Masters in International Business from Columbia University, and undergraduate and Juris Doctorate degrees from the University of Florida, where he served as a fellowship instructor at the College of Law.

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Biography last updated January 15, 2010