At Harvard Law School, he became the first person ever appointed to the Harvard Law School faculty to teach telecommunications and its first Research Fellow in Entertainment and Media Law. At the Columbia University School of Journalism, he serves as an annual faculty lecturer for the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business Journalism. He also serves as Moderator for the Aspen Italia Seminar for Leaders.

Mr. Brotman is the first Telecommunications Fellow of the Eisenhower Fellowships program. He is an Information Technology Fellow in the International Communications Studies Program at The Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He previously taught at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he also served as a Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School's Edward R. Murrow Center for International Communications and as an adviser to Fletcher's Program on International Information and Communication.

At the Boston University School of Law from 1990-1998, Mr. Brotman served as a member of the nation's largest intellectual property law faculty, teaching the only advanced seminar on entertainment law offered at any American law school. Under appointment by the United States Library of Congress, he also serves as one of 50 intellectual property experts on the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel that is convened to resolve disputes regarding copyright fees to be paid by cable television companies to producers of film and video programming.

As a Senior Fellow of The Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies from 1988-1994, Mr. Brotman directed major research projects on negotiation and communications policymaking, the Executive Branch and the communications policy process, the Americans with Disabilities Act's telecommunications provisions and the implementation of the Television Decoder Circuitry Act. He also served as Director of The Annenberg Washington Program's Winter Faculty Workshops on domestic and international communications.

Mr. Brotman has written over 300 articles and reviews that have appeared in scholarly and professional publications, including Broadcasting, Cable Communications Magazine, Communications Week, Electronic Media, Journal of Communication, The National Law Journal, Network World, Satellite Communications and Telecommunications; in law reviews published at Berkeley, Boston University, Hastings, Michigan, and UCLA; and in The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Journal of Commerce, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report and The Washington Post. He also is the editor of The Telecommunications Deregulation Sourcebook, a popular reference volume covering the broadcasting, cable television and telephone industries; Telephone Company and Cable Television Competition, a pioneering anthology dealing with technical, economic and regulatory aspects of broadband networks; and the author of Broadcasters Can Negotiate Anything, a best-selling management education book for radio and television executives. He also is the author of Communications Law and Practice, the leading comprehensive treatise covering domestic and international common carrier and mass media regulation.