A quick post to flag up the media and communication sessions at the Society of Legal Scholars Annual conference in Edinburgh, 3-6 September (early bird booking until 31 July), put together by section convenor Daithí Mac Síthigh (@macsitigh). The Cyberlaw programme also looks great.
Tuesday 3rd September
A1: 14.00-15.30 (Special session on conference theme)Ewa Komorek (Trinity College Dublin):
The problem which will not go away. Recent developments in the EU approach to media pluralism issue
Dimitrios Doukas (Belfast):
The Sky is not the (Only) Limit – Sports Broadcasting without Frontiers and the European Court of Justice
A2: 16.00-17.30Alan Durant (Middlesex):
The DPP’s Interim guidelines (December 2012) on prosecuting communications via social media
Damien McCallig (Galway):
Intrusion into private grief: regulating the reporting and presentation of deceased persons in the modern media
Paul Bernal (East Anglia):
Defamation on Twitter: a defence of ‘responsible tweeting’
Wednesday 4th September
A3: 9-10.30Yik Chan Chin (Hong Kong Baptist) & Yanbin Lu (Nottingham):
Defenses of Freedom of Expression in Chinese Right to Reputation Lawsuits
Päivi Tiilikka (Helsinki):
Margin of appreciation and balancing-criteria in the practise of the ECtHR when balancing the freedom of expression and right to private life – is there any consistency?
Jason Bosland (Melbourne)
Defamation, Statutory Reform and the Protection of Opinion in Australia and the United Kingdom
A4: 14.00-15.30 (Leveson Inquiry session, chaired by Tom Gibbons, Manchester)Paul Wragg (Leeds):
Freedom of the Press after Leveson
Judith Townend (City):
An uncertain climate: Defamation, privacy and the resolution of disputes outside the courtroom
Karen Mc Cullagh (East Anglia):
Regulation of Investigative Journalism post Leveson
via Preview: media & communications at SLS 2013 at Lex Ferenda.
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