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33 Media L. Notes 1 (2004-2005)

handle is hein.journals/mdilwnts33 and id is 1 raw text is: MEDIA LAW NOTES Volume 33, No. 1 Law Division, AEJMC Toronto a Grand Succ By Karen Markin, Universiy of Rhode Island kmarkin@uiedu Toronto was the scene of exciting scholarly exc Law Division sponsored sessions on topics rangin published in AEJMC journals to comparing medi systems around the world. It was standing room only at many sessions, inc last one of the convention, Contemporary Libel Legacy of New York Times v. Su/ran. Discussion lively in A Conflict of Laws: American Media Co Canadian Crimes as a Canadian author discussed he has faced from law enforcement officials as he crime in that country. The session on Access to Disciplinary Proceedings and Crime Reports was opener It revealed the huge unbalance between t campus police and disciplinary panels compared w lioited right of access to records of these essentia functions. The convention was a success because member forward with these ideas and carried them to fnur have an idea for a panel session at next year's con Antonio, please contact this year's vice head and Tony Fargo at Indiana. Proposing and orgamzing great way to get involved in the division. INS IDE THIS ISSUE 3 Unorthodox Freedom of Religion 4 Moving & Meiklejohn 6 Law Division Business Meeting Minutes 8 Sharing Ideas for Assessment & Accreditad ess hange as the g from getting The Importance of Public Research By Robert D. Richards & Clay Calvert, Co-Diectors, The Pennyvaia Centerfor the Fint Amendment cxr45@psu.edu a regulatory Attendees of the general business meeting at Toronto's AEJMC convention heard more than the usual litany of luding the very committee reports and floor resolutions. They were treated Law and the to a provocative talk on the research process by Everette E. became quite Dennis, one of the Association's most distinguished and - verage of as the author, co-author and/or editor of many books and the pressures at least 2:0 published articles - prolific scholars. writes about Dennis, currently the Felix E. Larkin Distinguished Campus Professor at Fordham Business School and formerly the an eye- dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication he powers of at the University of Oregon, was on hand to receive the with the very Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award. It ly public was a fitting tribute for someone who has long contributed to the communications field in various capacities, including s came as a prominent First Amendment scholar. non. If you His talk raised some points members of the law division vention m San should ponder. Dennis drove home the importance of rogram chair, making research public by getting the work mto print. He a panel is a cautioned scholars against growing discouraged and bogged down by journal rejections. His advice? Send the piece out again and again and again until it is finally published. In miiinaedar pagei other words, don't give up. If the piece is worth writing, it's worth fightng to get it into print. Dennis' almost assembly line approach to discussant often picks apart the arguments and offers suggestions for making the work stronger. Audience participants add their own thoughts about the research. What happens next? How many of the papers that grind through this time consuming process each August ever see the light of prnt? How many of these papers are ever published in a refereed journal, law review, journalism review or commentary piece in a newspaper or magazine? If scholarship is a public enterprise, as Ev Dennis and others believe it is, then these are questions worth answering. Surely the discussion of a research paper in a room with 15 to 20 attendees is not meant to be an end unto itself. ion Perhaps it would be useful, then, to track the progression of papers beyond the annual convention. The data would iiinuiedaa page 2 Media Law Nosri October 2004

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