Randolph J. May
RANDOLPH J. MAY is Founder and President of The Free State Foundation. The Free State Foundation is an independent, non-profit free market-oriented think tank founded in 2006. From October 1999-May 2006, May was a Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies at The Progress &...
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RANDOLPH J. MAY is Founder and President of The Free State Foundation. The Free State Foundation is an independent, non-profit free market-oriented think tank founded in 2006. From October 1999-May 2006, May was a Senior Fellow and Director of Communications Policy Studies at The Progress & Freedom Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank. Prior to joining PFF, he practiced communications, administrative, and regulatory law as a partner at major national law firms. From 1978 to 1981, May served as Assistant General Counsel and Associate General Counsel at the Federal Communication Commission.May has held numerous leadership positions in bar associations. He is a past Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Mr. May also serves as Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States.Mr. May has published more than one hundred seventy articles and essays on communications, administrative and constitutional law topics. He is author of A Call for a Radical New Communications Policy: Proposals for Free Market Reform, published in 2011, and co-author of The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property, forthcoming in September 2015. Mr. May is editor of two books, Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age: The Next Five Years, published in 2012, and New Directions in Communications Policy, published in 2009. In addition, he is the co-editor of two other books, Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated? and Communications Deregulation and FCC Reform. Mr. May has written regular columns on legal and regulatory affairs for Legal Times and the National Law Journal, leading national legal periodicals.He received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from Duke Law School, where he serves as a member of the Board of Visitors.
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