Law Section for the 2006 IAMCR Conference "Knowledge Societies for All: Media and Communication Strategies"

Cairo, Egypt - July 24-27.

PROGRAMME

Session 1: Regulatory measures to strengthen freedom of expression

Mohammad Sahid Ullah

Amendment Proposal of Bangladesh Press Council Act:

In Quest of Free and Responsible Journalism

Abubakar D. Alhassan

Regulating in the interest of Government or in the Public Interest? Examining the Defects and the Need for Reform of the Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission’s Law

Madalena Oliveira

The institution of ombudsmen for public radio and TV broadcasters:

a metajournalistic argument against the decadency of audiovisual mass media

Pieter J. Fourie

Moral philosophy as a threat to freedom of expression:

From Christian-nationalism to ubuntuism as a normative framework for media regulation, practice and performance in South Africa

Chris Paterson

The Failure of International Law in the Protection of Media Workers in Iraq

Session 2: Recent trends in legal aspects of the development of the Internet.

Sandra Braman

Emergent Forms of Governance and Governmentality in Cyberspace

Yuval Karniel

Can libel exist on the Internet? A unique approach from Israel

Seung Sun Lee, Gyong Ho Kim,

Online Freedom of Speech in South Korea

Session 3: In memoriam of George Gerbner

Session 4: Business Meeting

Andrei Richter, richter@medialaw.ru
Wolfgang Kleinwachter, wolfgang@imv.au.dk
co-chairs of the Law Section