Companion website for
COMPARATIVE MEDIA LAW & ETHICS
by TIM CROOK
Published by Routledge on 15th December 2009
For details of the book, please visit Routledge.
Author's profile at Goldsmiths, University of London
The companion site to Comparative Media Law & Ethics provides a range of resources that are in addition to the text published within the book. Media Law in the UK and USA develops and changes with breathtaking speed and complexity. Indeed it can be said that the authors and publishers for standard media law textbooks for these countries are truly heroic in keeping up-to-date and finding ways to explain the developments to students of media communication and professionals alike.
The site is based on the contents of the book and is also arranged according to the headings and sub-headings within chapters. Back-up resources include additional tables of summarized knowledge and learning, internet links, mock trial and moot court exercises where it is suggested students can undertake the role of adversarial attorney/barrister/advocates for various sides and battle out case issues before panels of judges and juries of fellow students, podcast resources in sound and video, guides for journalists on how to frame their reasons for challenging censorship and legal restrictions imposed on them, and a form of ‘blogging’ by the book’s author on media law and ethics developments.
There will also be an expansion of the comparative media law and ethics resources through references to the jurisdictions covered in the book as well as the jurisdictions of other countries.
Tim Crook Blog- author of Comparative Media Law & Ethics
Chapter 1 Primary Media Law of the UK and USA
Chapter 2 Media Jurisprudence, Media Ethicology and Media Ethicism
Chapter 3 Defamation Law
Chapter 4 Contempt/Protecting Fair Trial Law
Chapter 5 Privacy Law
Chapter 6 Media Regulation
Chapter 7 State and National Security Law
Chapter 8 Comparative Media Law and Ethics: Four Genres of Jurisdictions
Chapter 9 The Legal Problematizing of Journalism
Chapter 10 Human Rights and International Law for Journalists
Chapter 11 Racial and Religious Hatred
Chapter 12 Copyright and Intellectual Property Law
Chapter 13 Freedom of Information Legislation
Select Glossary
BibliographyWatch a short slideshow of what the book is about (requires Windows Media Player).
Tim Crook’s article in the Daily Telegraph 28th January 2010 on Public Interest/Private Lives.
