Law and Policy research panels, AEJMC Chicago 2008
Guns, Death, the Environment, and More: New Issues in Access to Information
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Packing Heat: A Gun Battle Between Privacy and Access
Aimee Edmondson, University of Missouri
No Two States Alike: A Statutory Analysis of Survivor Privacy Rights
Ana-Klara Hering, University of Florida
The Human Right to Information, the Environment, and Information About the Environment: From the Universal Declaration to the Aarhus Convention
Benjamin W. Cramer, Pennsylvania State University
The Cherokee Nation Freedom of Information Act: Context and Analysis for an Open-Records Law in Indian Country
Dan Lewerenz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
University Foundations, Donors and Open Records: A 50-State Study of Access to Foundation Records
Adrianna C. Rodriguez, University of Florida
What’s Online Today?: Changing Legal Restrictions in Cyberspace
Thursday, August 7, 2008
8:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
A Question of Where in Cyberspace: Background and Conflicts of Jurisdiction Online
Lynette Holman, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
COPA's Last Stand? Revisiting the Child Online Protection Act Following
the 2007 ACLU v. Gonzales Ruling
Christina Malik, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Crowdslapping the Government: First Amendment Protections for the Crowd in Government Crowdsourcing Ventures
Daren Brabham, University of Utah
Online Defamation: Protection Scope of the Communications Decency Act**
Sherine El-Toukhy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Transforming Productive Use: The Ninth Circuit's Fair Use Analysis
of Visual Search Engines in Kelly and Perfect 10
Kathleen K. Olson, Lehigh University
** Top Student Paper
Scholar-to-Scholar Session
Thursday, August 7, 2008
12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
What is News?: The FCC and the New Battle Over the Regulation of Video News Releases
Clay Calvert, Pennsylvania State University
Advertising Parody, Intellectual Property and Defamation in the United States and France
Leo Eko, University of Iowa
In the Zone: Forum Analysis and Free Speech Zones on College Campuses
Michele Jones, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Inclusion or Illusion? An Analysis of the FCC's Public Hearings on
Media Ownership 2006-2007
Jonathan Obar, Pennsylvania State University
Amit Schejter, Pennsylvania State University
The Politics of Power: A Social Architecture Analysis of the 2005-2007 Federal Shield Law Debate in Congress
Cathy Packer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
The Beginning of the End?: The Federal Reporter's Privilege Five Years
After McKevitt v. Pallasch
Jason Shepard, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Managing Conflict Over Access: A Typology of Sunshine Law Dispute Resolution Systems
Daxton Stewart, Texas Christian University
Cutting Edge Constitutionalism: Evolving Issues in First Amendment Jurisprudence
Friday, August 8, 2008
3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Deciphering Dun & Bradstreet: Does the First Amendment Matter in Private Figure-Private Concern Defamation Cases?
Ruth Walden, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Derigan Silver, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Freedom of Speech & the High Price of College Textbooks: Do New Laws Affecting Disclosure of Textbook Information Go Too Far and Violate the First Amendment?
Clay Calvert, Pennsylvania State University
Friends of the First Amendment? Amicus Curiae Briefs in Free Speech/Press Cases During the Warren and Burger Courts
Minjeong Kim, Colorado State University
Lenae Vinson, Hawaii Pacific University
The Functional Equivalent of Ultimate Victory for the Corporate Free-Speech Movement: The Watershed Significance of FEC v. WRTL*
Robert Kerr, University of Oklahoma
Newsgathering, Autonomy and the Special-Rights Apocrypha: Supreme Court and Media Litigant Conceptions of Press Freedom
Erik Ugland, Marquette University
* Top Faculty Paper
Libel, Privilege, and the FCC: Old Legal Doctrines with New Applications
Saturday, August 9, 2008
8:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
The "Neutral Reportage" Doctrine in English Law
Kyu Ho Youm, University of Oregon
Shades of Truth, Harm, and Malice: The Emergence of the Subsidiary Meaning
Doctrine
Carolyn Edy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
First Amendment Reporter's Privilege: Interpretation and Application
of the Exhaustion Requirement
Kristin Simonetti, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Preventing the Next Price v. Time: Legal and Historical Arguments
for Action
Dean C. Smith, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Broadcast Fairness as a Public Interest Principle: Finding Intent in
the 1927 and 1934 Acts
Mark R. Arbuckle, Pittsburg State University
New Legal Bounds in Cyberspace: Ever-Changing Media Law
Saturday, August 9, 2008
10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Equal Protection Challenges to Legal Protections for Newsgathering:
Would Bloggers Have a Claim?
Laura J. Hendrickson, Texas House Research Organization
Perfect 10 v. Visa, MasterCard, et al: A Full Frontal Assault on Copyright
Enforcement in Digital Media or a Slippery Slope Diverted?
Pamela Laucella, Indiana University
Ryan Rodenberg, Indiana University
A Model Law to Prosecute Information Society Libels
Nikhil Moro, Central Michigan University
Privacy and Accountability: Reexamining Bartnicki v. Vopper
Rich Powell, Indiana University
Defining Defamation: Plaintiff Status in the Age of the Internet
Amy Kristin Sanders, University of Minnesota