COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course explores the regulation and evolution of electronic communications. The course surveys the legal framework of telecommunications, broadband and the Internet at several significant points in its development. The course is designed inline with the respective regulatory paths of broadcast, wireline and wireless telephony, cable, and broadband.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Comparatively
analyse the broadcast regulations from different jurisdictions; The early
regulatory frameworks and their progeny;
- Discuss the advent of long-distance and local
market telephone competition;
- Trace the evolution of multichannel video
communications; and
- Examine the technological convergence,
- Appreciate the emerging dominance of broadband
and wireless communications, and
- Assess the impact of rapid technological
changes.
Course Content
- The development of telecommunications law
- Conflicts between service providers and the
regulators,
- Conflict among service providers; monopoly
versus competitive market regulation and issues associated with transitioning
from the former to the latter;
- Universal service issues and
- The impact of such concerns as intellectual
property and free speech.
COMPULSORY LEARNING MATERIALS
- Beale Bishop & Furmston: Contract Cases & Materials
(Latest Edited)
- Beatson, Sir Jack, Q,C. (2002). Anson’s Law of Contract (28th Ed), OUP,
- Cheshire & Fitfoot: Law of Contract (Latest Edition)
OPTIONAL LEARNING MATERIALS
- Cunnington, R. S (2007). Text,
Cases and Materials on Contract Law, Routledge-Cavendish,
- Hodgin R.W. (1975). Law of Contract in East Africa, Kenya
Literature Bureau,