IAMCR CONFERENCE REPORT

BUDAPEST, SEPTEMBER 7-8

At the Peace and Communication IAMCR conference in Budapest, the Law Section held its meeting on September 8, 2001, chaired by the Section President Andrei Richter. The first report heard at the session was “The Policy of Liberalization and Publicity in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern European Broadcasting Systems (the cases of Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, 1989-1999)” delivered by Assia Ivantcheva, Ph.D., School of International Service, American University, Washington, USA (and the Vice-President of the Section). A new member of the Association and the section, Craig Burgess, lecturer in Media Law & Ethics & Journalism of the Faculty of Arts in University of Southern Queensland, Australia delivered a paper titled “Can a democratic government, an independent judiciary and a free press co-exist? (An Australian experience)”.