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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
Recommended Media Law textbooks
In this page I would like to pay a special tribute to all media law book writers and teachers. These texts are outstanding achievements and their writers have my enduring admiration given the complexity of media law in the UK and USA and the pace and intricacy of changes and reform. If there are any books I have inadvertently omitted to mention and should be included please contact me at t.crook@gold.ac.uk.
UK Media Law
McNae's Essential Law for Journalists, 20th Edition. July 2009. Oxford University Press.
David Banks and Mark Hanna. These 2 journalism law teachers have taken over from the legendary co-authors Tom Welch and Walter Greenwood who helped establish this textbook as the journalism law bible in Britain. [The new edition is a brilliant achievement given the rapid and complex changes in UK journalism law in only 2 years. Very well structured book with logical indexing.]
Law for Journalists. 2nd Edition. Frances Quinn. May 2009. Pearson Longman. (Very popular with journalism students.)
Media Law by Geoffrey Robertson QC and Sir Andrew Nicol QC. 5th Edition 2008. Penguin. (Highly recommended.)
Media Law for Journalists by Ursula Smartt. June 2006. Sage. (This book has an excellent chapter on media law in Scotland.)
Law and the Media by Duncan Bloy and Sarah Hadwin. Sweet & Maxwell. September 2007.
Media Law (SAGE Course Companions) by Professor Duncan Bloy. December 2006 [A very handy and clearly written companion book for law and journalism students.]
Privacy and the Press by Joshua Rozenberg. 2nd edition 2005. Oxford University Press. [Very well written and excellent analysis of debates over developing UK media privacy law. OUP should commission a new edition asap.]
For Law students
Media Law and Practice by David Goldberg (Editor), Gavin Sutter (Editor), Ian Walden (Editor). October 2009. Oxford University Press. Very scholarly and authoritative. More suitable for law students.
Media Law and Human Rights by Mr Justice Nicol, Gavin Millar QC, and Andrew Sharland. Oxford University Press. 2nd Edition. February 2009. (Very readable and authoritative on impact of ECHR on UK media law.)
Media Freedom Under the Human Rights Act by Helen Fenwick, and Gavin Phillipson. August 2006. Oxford University Press. [Enormously impressive and exhaustive analysis of media law issues in the context of the Human Rights Act. More suitable for law students. A seminal text on the subject.]
Blackstone's Statutes on Media Law by Richard Caddell (Editor), Howard Johnson (Editor). Oxford University of Press. August 2008. [Useful for media lawyers and law students.]
Freedom of Speech by Eric Barendt. 2nd edition 2007. Oxford University Press. [well-written theoretical text engaging US and UK media law issues. Tending to favour European Human Rights standard on free speech compared to constitutional US First Amendment principle.
US Media Law
Media Law and Ethics, Third Edition (Lea's Communication Series) by Roy L. Moore and Michael D. Murray. November 2007. Lawrence Erlbaum/Routledge.
Communications Law: Liberties, Restraints, and the Modern Media by John D. Zelezny. Wadsworth Publishing; 6th edition January 2010.
Mass Media Law 2009/2010 Edition by Don Pember and Clay Calvert. McGraw-Hill. 16th Edition. January 2008.
Major Principles of Media Law, 2010 Edition by Wayne Overbeck and Genelle Belmas. Wadsworth Publishing; 1st edition August 2009.
The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication by Robert Trager, Joseph Russomanno and Susan Dente Ross. CQ Press; 2nd edition July 2009.
Electronic Media Law by Dr. Roger L. Sadler. Sage Publications. March 2005.
Electronic Media Law and Regulation by Kenneth Creech, Fifth Edition. Focal Press, January 2007.
The International Perspective
International Libel & Privacy Handbook: A Global Reference for Journalists, Publishers, Webmasters, and Lawyers Edited by Charles J. Glasser Jr. 2nd Edition. Bloomberg Press June 2009. [Outstanding book containing well-written chapters on the media law of a wide range of legal jurisdictions from China, India and Japan to France, Spain, USA and UK.]
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