Background
Wimmer, Kurt A. was born on March 21, 1959 in Wichita, Kansas, United States.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Kurt A. Wimmer
Edit ProfileEducation
University of Missouri-Columbia (Bachelor of Journalism, 1982). Syracuse University (Master of Arts, 1985. Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1985).
Career
Worked at Covington & Burling. Admitted to the bar, 1987, Kansas. 1988, Texas; 1993, District of Columbia.
Board of Editors, Syracuse Law Review, 1983-1985.
Law Clerk to Chief Judge Jerry Buchmeyer, United States. District Court (Northern District of Texas), 1985-1986.
Director, Legal Services of North Texas, 1989-1991. Author: "Global Data Transmission Beyond Wired Boundaries Through the Advent of Personal Communications Services," Globalization of Computer and Communication: Perspectives for Developing Economies (McGraw-Hill, 1993).
"International Implementation of Proceedings of the Chemical Society and Other New Wireless Telecommunications Services" FCBA International Communications Practice Handbook, 1993.
"Deregulation and the Market Failure in Minority Programming: The Socioeconomic Dimensions of Broadcast Reform," Hastings Committee/Ent Law Journal (1986). "The Future of Minority Advocacy Before the Federal Communication Commission: Using Marketplace Rhetoric to Urge Policy Change," Federal Communications Law Journal (University of California, Los Angeles) (1989). Company-Author: "Presidential Signing Statements as Interpretations of Legislative Intent: An Executive Aggrandizement of Power," Harvard Journal on Legislation (1987).
Associate Editor, A Legislative History of Amendments to the Communications Acting of 1934.
Member, Science and Technology Section and Forum on Communications Law, American Bar Association. Member, Wireless Telecommunications Practice Committee, Mass Media Committee and International Practice Committee, Federal Communications Bar Association.
Achievements
Membership
Member, Science and Technology Section and Forum on Communications Law, American Bar Association. Member, Wireless Telecommunications Practice Committee, Mass Media Committee and International Practice Committee, Federal Communications Bar Association.
