LAW SECTION REPORT
on its sessions at the 22nd Scientific Conference and General Assembly of the IAMCR in Singapore

As scheduled, the Law Section had four sessions. The first, The Challenge of Regulating Convergence (International Aspects), heard the following reports: Internet Governance: How ICANN could become a Model for Global Media Policy and Law Making by Wolfgang Kleinwachter, NETCOM-Institute, Leipzig, Germany; Converging Technologies, Converging Regulation, Divergent Approaches by Susan J. Drucker, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, and Gary Gumpert, Communication Landscapers, Great Neck, New York, USA; Differential Application of Constitutional Law By Type of Information Processing by Dr. Sandra Braman, Reese Phifer Professor, University of Alabama, Dept. of Telecommunication & Film, Tuscaloosa, U.S.A.

A special panel session "Regulation and Self-Regulation of Internet: a View from Russia" included the following participants from the School of Journalism, Moscow State University, Russia: Professor Yassen N. Zassoursky, Associate Professor Maria Loukina, Senior Lecturer Andrei Raskine, Associate Professor Andrei Richter, Professor Elena Vartanova and Researcher Ivan Zassoursky.

Legal and regulatory dilemmas faced by national governments in the light of the emerging international mass communication and telecommunications regime were discussed at the third session with the following reports: New Telecom Policy 1999: Implementing Universal Service in India's Liberalizing Market by Anita Dey, M.A. Candidate, School of International Service, American University, U.S.A.; Transformation of Korean Law and Society: A Case of Press Freedom by Kyu Ho Youm, M.S.L., Ph.D., Professor of Media Law, Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication, Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A.; The Impact of the Termination of the Department of Information for the Regulation of Broadcasting Media in Indonesia by Hinca Pandjaitan, Director, the Indonesian Media Law and Policy Center, Jakarta, Indonesia; and Media, Independence and the International Community: Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor by David Goldberg, School of Law, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

The Challenge of Regulating Convergence (National Cases) was the topic of the fourth session with the reports Internet Libel in U.S. Law: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks by Kyu Ho Youm, M.S.L., Ph.D., Professor of Media Law, Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication, Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A.; Emerging Communication Technologies and Analogical Reasoning in First Amendment Jurisprudence: A Case Study: Is Encryption “Source Code” Speech? by George Minnigh, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder and Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A.; Digital Advertising in German Sports Broadcasting: A Discussion of the Compatibility with German Media Law and Broader Implications by Christian Kaschuba, Doctoral Candidate, University of Washington, School of Communications, U.S.A.; Legislation for the Multimedia Super Corridor: A Case Study of the Malaysian Cyberlaws by Teck-Hua Ngu, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Mass Communication, Mara University of Technology, Shah Alam, Malaysia.

For the 2002 Barcelona General Assembly and Scientific Conference, the following topics are suggested for reports at the Section meetings: Community, Media, Language, & Law; and Changing Legal Parameters of Community Media.