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Professor Michael Botein (540 words) |
 | Professor Botein, who was born and raised in Manhattan and received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1966, initially had wanted to do civil rights litigation in Washington, DC and then go into teaching. |
 | Professor Botein has become a well-respected expert in communications law, and a scholarly witness to the unprecedented growth of the cable industry and the Internet, the advent of direct broadcast satellites, and the break-up of ATandT. |
 | Professor Botein is himself regularly invited to speak at law schools around the world, recently consulting with the University of Bogota, Colombia on establishing a media law program there. |
| Stephen Botein Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society (130 words) |
 | Stephen Botein Fellowships are for research in the history of the book in American culture. |
 | Funding is derived from an endowment established by the family and friends of the late Mr. |
 | Botein Fellows are selected on the basis of the applicant's scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance or importance of the project, and the appropriateness of the proposed study to the Society's collections. |