Communication Law

Dom Caristi, PhD, Professor of Telecommunications. Caristi joined the Ball State faculty in 1998, and is a founding member and Associate Director of the Digital Policy Institute at that university. A member of the Broadcast Education Association for more than 30 years, he served on the Board of Directors (1997–2002), including a term as its Vice President. William R. Davie, PhD, Professor of Communication. Davie holds the Board of Regents Professorship of Communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has been a member of the faculty since 1993. He is the head of the Mass Communication/Broadcast sequence and has served as interim department head and graduate program coordinator. Laurie Thomas Lee, PhD, Professor of Broadcasting in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lee joined the faculty full time in 1994. She is a recipient of the James A. Lake Academic Freedom award and has served as an Executive Vice Chancellor Faculty Fellow, giving presentations on the First Amendment and academic freedom.

1. Sources of Law and Systems of Justice 2. First Amendment in Principle and Practice 3. Sedition and Censorship 4. Forums of Freedom 5. Libel 6. Privacy 7. Intellectual Property 8. Broadcasting and Telecommunications 9. Digital Media Law 10. Obscenity and Indecency 11. Advertising Law 12. Media Business Law 13. Media and Courts 14. Freedom of Access