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Daniel Lyons

Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Dean's Distinguished Scholar

Profile

Daniel Lyons is a professor, the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and the Dean's Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School. He specializes in property, telecommunications and internet law, and administrative law. Before joining BC Law, Lyons practiced at the firm of Munger, Tolles and Olson in Los Angeles. He also clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He received his A.B. from Harvard College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Lyons has testified before Congress and state legislatures, and has participated in numerous proceedings at the Federal Communications Commission. His work has appeared in legal journals such as the Emory Law Journal and in the popular press, including Forbes MagazineUS News and World Report, and the Wall Street Journal. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he has written more than 150 blog posts on tech policy issues.

 

RECENT MEDIA & APPEARANCES

Daniel Lyons

Nondelegation Doctrine Debate

Prof. Daniel Lyons' most recent blog post for AEIdeas analyzes the Supreme Court's oral arguments in FCC v. Consumers’ Research, offering insight into the nondelegation doctrine and what the case signals about the Court’s future direction.

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Fee Elimination

Professor Daniel Lyons was recently interviewed by ABC 22 on whether the Supreme Court may eliminate the Universal Service Fund, a monthly phone, internet and cable fee used to help support rural communities and low income users.

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Doctrine Debate

Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Daniel Lyons discusses the potential revival of the nondelegation doctrine through the FCC v. Consumers' Research case in this Impact post.

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TikTok for Sale?

BC Law Prof. Daniel Lyons is quoted in NPR, hypothsising what Trump may finally do with TikTok after years of promising its ban.

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Net Neutrality

In his latest blog, BC Law Prof. and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Daniel Lyons breaks down a big week in the Net Neutrality case.

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A Case for Letting Net Neutrality Be

BC Law Prof. and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Daniel Lyons proposes a prudent solution to the Net Neutrality case: do nothing.

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TikTok's Challenge

Last month's oral arguments in TikTok v. Garland suggest that the social media platform faces a challenging path to avoiding divestiture requirements. Prof. Daniel Lyons breaks it down in AEIdeas.

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Copyright Cops

In his most recent AEI Ideas post, Prof. Daniel Lyons contends that holding broadband providers liable for copyright infringement could harm internet access and privacy laws.

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