Media Law and Practice - Softcover

David Goldberg taught law at the School of Law, University of Glasgow from 1971-2000 and created the teaching of media law and policy there in 1983. He directs deeJgee Research/Consultancy and is an Associate Fellow, Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Center for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He facilitates media law learning at Glasgow Caledonian University; Queen Mary College (University of London) and Stirling University. In 1979, he founded the Journal of Media Law and Practice, now Tottel's Communications Law and Practice. He co-convenes the Media Law Advocates Training Program and is a founding member of the International Media Lawyers Association. He is on the Board of the Legal Human Academy, which explores innovative learning methods for lawyers. Gavin Sutter is Lecturer in Media Law and a member of the Institute of Computer and Communications Law at the Center for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. He established, manages and teaches on the LLM Media Law course for the ICCL, as well as writing in the field. His key areas of interest are in the regulation of content in both traditional and new media, with a particular emphasis on the issues of defamation and intermediary liability. He has been a member of the executive board of BILETA (British & Irish Law, Education & Technology Association), and sits on the editorial board of Tottel's Communications Law journal.
Dr. Ian Walden is Professor of Information and Communications Law and head of the Institute of Computer and Communications Law in the Center for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. He has been involved in law reform projects for the World Bank, the European Commission, UNCTAD, UNECE and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, as well as for a number of individual states. In 1995-96, He was seconded to the European Commission, as a National Expert in electronic commerce law, and is a member of the Legal Advisory Board to the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Texas and Melbourne and is also a solicitor at Baker & McKenzie LLP. He is a Trustee and Vice-Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation.

This new work draws upon the combined expertise of established academic authorities and leading practitioners to describe and analyse key developments across a range of inter-related fields such as defamation, contempt of court, freedom of information, media ownership and diversity, intellectual property, and the regulation of public and commercial broadcast media, including advertising rules...A well-written and accessible account of most of the important facets of media law * Ian Cram, Communications Law, 16.1 * This book is a powerful and valuable addition to the growing canon of UK Media Law publications * Tim Cook, Goldsmiths College, University of London *