Silicon Flatirons 2009 Writing Competition Winner

Each year, Silicon Flatirons accepts submissions of papers written about a topic involving law and technology in order to promote and encourage among students the continued pursuit of the research, the planning, the organization, the writing, and the editing of scholarly papers in this field.

Each year, Silicon Flatirons accepts submissions of papers written about a topic involving law and technology in order to promote and encourage among students the continued pursuit of the research, the planning, the organization, the writing, and the editing of scholarly papers in this field. This year’s papers were read and judged by a panel of attorneys at Faegre & Benson, the sponsor of this contest. The winner receives a check for $500 and an opportunity for publication in a future issue of the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law published by CU Law. This year marks the seventh year of the contest, and the fifth year that the contest has been sponsored by Faegre & Benson.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s Faegre & Benson Writing Competition is Per Larsen, J.D Candidate 2010. Larsen wrote a paper entitled, “Text Message Price Gouging: A Perfect Storm of Tacit Collusion,” which analyzes text message pricing to show how consumers are overcharged relative to other wireless services and examines how the text messaging market became a concentrated market with only a few national wireless carriers. It also analyzes how competition, antitrust law, and regulatory oversight should protect consumers from price gouging and discusses how the FCC has not fulfilled its mission to provide consumers effective competition and efficient use of spectrum with regards to text messaging. Larsen’s paper will be published in the next JTHTL issue. To subscribe to the Journal send an email to jthtl@colorado.edu.

Know What’s Next