UNC Center for Media Law and Policy
 

 

First Amendment Day
On Oct. 1, 2009, the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy co-sponsored First Amendment Day at UNC-CH.  Click here to read more

 

The UNC Center for Media Law and Policy is a forum for study and debate about the important media law and policy issues facing North Carolina and the nation. The center’s goal is to enhance the discussion of media law and policy issues by bringing together people who represent a diversity of informed views.

The UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the UNC School of Law developed the center in 2004.

The center hosts a variety of speakers from around the world. Center events range from formal lectures to intimate dinners, from moderated debates to classroom visits. Students, faculty and scholars from a variety of disciplines, as well as lawmakers, attorneys, journalists and the public attend the center's events.

 

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Upcoming Events

 Miriam Nisbet, Director of the Office of Government Information Services

Friday, March 13
Miriam Nisbet, director of the Office of Government Information Services at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, will be the keynote speaker at the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium. OGIS is the new FOIA policy office and provides mediation services to resolve disputes between FOIA requesters and administrative agencies.

 

News & Information

News Item

Larry Flynt to Speak at UNC
Larry Flynt, published of Hustler magazine and First Amendment advocate, will deliver the keynote address for the First Amendment Law Review's symposium, "Sexually Explicit Speech and the First Amendment" on Feb. 18.  Clay Calvert, Brechner Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida, and Robert Richards, John and Ann Curley Professor of First Amendment Studies at Penn State University, will moderate the lecture.  The event will take place at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall at the UNC Student Union.  It is free and open to the public, but tickets must be picked up prior to the event at the Student Union Box Office.  The First Amendment Law Review is published by students in the UNC School of Law.

 
News Item Nine Students to Present Media Law & Policy Papers at AEJMC SE Colloquium
Nine UNC graduate students were selected to present their research papers in the law and policy division of the 2010 Southeast Colloquium for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.  Two recent UNC graduates will present their faculty research papers.  Papers are selected for presentation through a process of blind review.  The Southeast Colloquium will be held March 11-13 in Chapel Hill.  For more information on the conference, click here.

 News Item Wade Hargrove Honored
Friends and colleagues of attorney Wade Hargrove recently established an annual media law colloquium in his honor. More than $200,000 was raised for the Wade H. Hargrove Communications Law and Policy Colloquium. Hargrove, a partner with Brooks Pierce in Raleigh, has been NCAB executive director and general counsel for more than 39 years, NCCTA general counsel for 30 years and Hearst communications regulatory counsel for 20 years. He has supported the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the UNC School of Law as an adviser, volunteer and donor.