PCMLP Workshop: Comparative Perspectives on Media Regulation and Society

Tuesday 14th- Wednesday 15th December 2010

The Park, 15 Parliament Street, New Delhi, India

This two-day workshop was held in conjunction with the 2010 Oxford-India Media Law Moot Court Competition and explored international and comparative perspectives on media regulation as it affects current debates and the future role of information in society. It focused on the issues around self- regulation in the broadcasting sector, and went further to consider larger questions of media and societal transformations.

Speakers included Smt. Ambika Soni, the Hon'ble Minister of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, Sh. Shanti Bhushan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Justice J.S. Verma, Ex-Chief Justice of India and noted academician Professor Satish Deshpande.Also involved were leading international researchers and experts in media regulation, such as Professor Monroe E. Price from the University of Pennsylvania, Jonathan Blake of Covington and Burling and Professor Wolfgang Shulz from the Hans Bredow Institute.

A copy of the agenda can be found here.

The Programme would like to thank all speakers and participants for making the workshop so successful.