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44 Media L. Notes 1 (2015-2016)

handle is hein.journals/mdilwnts44 and id is 1 raw text is: Dan Kozlowski Saint Louis University dkozlows@slu.edu I'm writing this column a week after the Supreme Court began its newest term. The first Monday in October is always an energizing day for me. I wear my Supreme Court tie and talk adoringly about the Court to my students. I'm teaching my department's free expression class this fall. It's always so fun and invigorating to see another new group of students learn to love the law and the First Amendment. Speaking of fun - I'm excited and honored to serve as division head this year. The division has played such a meaningful role in my professional life. I wouldn't be where I am in my career without the relationships I've formed and the mentoring I've received from division members. We have a great leadership team at your service this year: Courtney Barclay is vice head/program chair; Jason Martin is research chair; Kearston Wesner is clerk/newsletter editor (she designed this slick issue you're reading now!); Jonathan Peters is teaching chair; Jared Schroeder is PF&R chair; Matthew Telleen is our webmaster, and Mike Martinez graciously agreed to remain Southeast Colloquium chair again this year. I'm happy to announce that Brooks Fuller from UNC-Chapel Hill has agreed to serve as our division's first graduate student liaison. The idea for the liaison position came from past head Chip Stewart, as a recommendation that emerged from our division assessment in Montreal in 2014. I'm glad to make the position happen. Brooks is in his third year of the doctoral program at UNC. As graduate student liaison, he'll be writing occasional columns for Media Law Notes. And he has good ideas about reaching out to graduate students before conferences to orient them to what will happen there and to introduce them to the division. If you have other thoughts and suggestions about ways our division can better connect with and support graduate students, please don't hesitate to reach out to Brooks. His email address is pfuller@live.unc.edu. Vice head/program chair Courtney Barclay is already hard at work scheduling panels for the Minneapolis conference. Many thanks to those ofyou who submitted ideas to her! In addition to our regular panels, we are also working on organizing preconference sessions. The conference will take place Aug. 3-7 in Minneapolis. Wednesday, Aug. 3 will be the day of our preconference sessions. We will announce the themes and compositions of the panels as we finalize them. Those ofyou at the business meeting in San Francisco saw us honor Jane Bambauer as the recipient of the first Stonecipher Award. Thanks to the generosity of Kyu Ho Youm and Doug Anderson, AEJMC will bestow the Stonecipher Award each year, recognizing the top work in legal scholarship concerning freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and communication law and policy. Our division has the privilege of choosingthe recipient. I asked Derigan Silver to chair the Stonecipher Award Selection Committee this year. The committee's task will be to identify the best research published in 2015. See Derigan's announcement in this issue for more details. The calls for submissions and reviewers for the 2016 Southeast Colloquium are also inside. This year's colloquium is March 3-5 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Thanks in advance for volunteering to review papers, and good Continued on page 4 Page 1 In This Issue ppic~ Let's G arted Clay Calvert University of Florida ccalvert@jou.ufl.edu Whether it is for athesis, a dissertation, an AEJMC conference paper or a law journal article, a key starting point is finding a topic about which to write. Graduate students (and even newly minted assistant professors) going through the process for the first or second time often experience difficulty in identifying a topic and the research questions that will accompany it. That's natural, of course, as with attempting anything as a neophyte. A common mistake, for example, is vastness of scope as a starting point. I want to study the right to be forgotten, a graduate student might say. Definitely

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