IAMCR CONFERENCE REPORT

Law

Section Head: Andrei Richter

The first session of the Law Section at the 23 Conference of the IAMCR was in fact a roundtable discussion titled “Global Governance in the Information Age: How does Cyberspace affect political and legal norms?” Participants in the discussion were Claudia Padavoni, University of Padua (Italy); Cees Hamelink, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands); Marc Raboy, University of Montreal (Canada); Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, University of Aarhus (Denmark) - moderator.

Additional papers to the above discussion formed the second session. The papers were presented by Gary W. Ozanich, State University of New York (U.S.A.) “3-G Wireless Auctions: A Barrier to New Services for Local Communication” and Christian Kaschuba, University of Washington, (U.S.A.) “The Digital Challenge to the Public Interest: The Regulation of Virtual Advertising in the European Union”.

Session 3: “Media Law, Culture and Society” had only one report – by Dima Dabbous-Sensenig, Lebanese American University (Lebanon) “Ending The War? Broadcasting Legislation in Lebanon”.

Business meeting of the section re-elected Andrei Richter as Section Head and outlined topics for the future meetings.

The overall number of participants at the Section meetings was 29 from 18 countries.

Visit the web-site of the Law Section at: www.medialaw.ru/iamcr. The site provides for the abstracts and in several cases full texts of the papers to the conference.

Andrei Richter,

The Moscow Media Law and Policy Institute

Tel/fax (+7095) 737-3371, e-mail: richter@medialaw.ru