The Stanford Law & Policy Review and Stanford Law School will welcome Congressman Rick Boucher (D., Va.) to deliver a speech entitled “Congress Must Balance its Copyright Agenda”.

Rep. Rick Boucher (D., Va.), now serving his thirteenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Virginia’s Ninth Congressional District, has consistently provided the leadership and initiative to guide American technology policy. As a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Boucher serves on the Telecommunications and the Internet subcommittee where he has lobbied to promote competition in the cable and local telephone industries at the core of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Rep. Boucher is also a member of the Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittees of the House Judiciary Committee. In that position, Rep. Boucher has established himself as a leading architect of federal policy for Information Technology and the Internet.