Former People

Yik Chan Chin

Dr. Yik Chan Chin was the first Shell Fellow in Media Law and Policy. She gained an MA in transnational communication and global media at the University of London and a PhD in Media and Communication in the University of Westminster. 

Tal Ofek
DPhil Student

Tal joined the Centre in 2005 and is studying towards a D.Phil. Her research will examine telecommunications regulation, in particular the impact that advanced and innovative technologies may have on future development of existing regulatory frameworks and approaches.

Danilo Leonardi
Former Head of PCMLP

Danilo Leonardi was Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University from September 2006 - June 2008. He was also Coordinator of IMLA (the International Media Lawyers Association). His main interest is in media law and regulation in societies in transition to the rule of law. Before taking up his position at the University of Oxford in 2001, Danilo worked in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Edinburgh and Buenos Aires.

Melisande Middleton

Melisande Middleton is Director of the Center for International Media Ethics (CIME). Her research
focuses on regulating social responsibility in the media. She is an honors graduate of Stanford
University and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, with a focus in international affairs and economics.
She has written and edited for the World Bank, UNESCO, CNRS International Magazine, Les Echos and
Bayard Presse media group. Her projects have involved work across several continents, most recently in

Huanqing Yao
Visitor

Associate Professor Huanqing Yao joins us from Renmin University of China, where he is the Vice Director of civil and commercial jurisprudence. Prior to this he has taught courses in IPR law, fundamental civil law, copyright law, debts & contracts and divisional contract law, and worked as Legal Counsel to the Xinhua News Agency. Dr. Yao’s research interests include the protection and restriction of freedom of speech in cyberspace, and will be working closely with PCMLP during his stay to promote this issue.

Enrique Armijo

Enrique Armijo is an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, DC, where he practices media and appellate law. He currently serves on a Stanhope Centre team with Professors Monroe Price and Peter Krug that is assessing Rwanda's draft Press Law, and has conducted media law assessments for East Timor (IREX) and Jordan (Center for Global Communication Studies at Annenberg).

Katya Fisher Yoffe

Katya Yoffe is a student at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and recipient of the Howard M. Squadron Fellowship in Law, Media, and Society. She is editor of The Media Law Assistance Website (MLAW) (www.globalmedialaw.com) which is being developed in conjunction with the National Endowment for Democracy's Center for International Media Assistance and The Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication. Katya has previously interned at the Open Society Justice Initiative, the Art Loss Register, and the Art Law Department of Herrick, Feinstein LLP.

Eric Blinderman

Eric Blinderman served from March of 2004 until December of 2006 in Iraq, first as an Associate General Counsel of the Coalition Provisional Authority and later as Chief Legal Counsel and Associate Deputy to the Regime Crimes Liaison’s Office. During his time in Iraq, Eric worked primarily with the Iraqi High Tribunal as it prepared to try and tried members of the former regime (including Saddam Hussein) for atrocities committed against the Iraqi people. Eric has a J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School and was awarded a M.St.

Baris Gunaydin

Baris graduated from Ankara University Law Faculty. He is working as a Research Assistant in Anadolu University Communication Sciences Faculty Department of Journalism. . He is co-lecturer of Media Law, Press Law lectures. He has several papers and articles submitted to and published in national and international meetings and periodicals. His PhD thesis deals with Internet Law and Freedom of Speech.

Matthew Weldon

Matthew Weldon received his law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, in 2009, where he was editor of the Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal, a recipient of the Howard M. Squadron Fellowship and the Cardozo Service and Achievement Award, and was winner of the 2008 ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition. Mr. Weldon was a law school visiting student at PCMLP in spring 2009, a policy intern at the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research and participated in the Annenberg-Oxford 2007 Institute on Global Media Policy.

Cristian Varccari
Visitor

Dr. Cristian Vaccari (Ph.D, Universita IULM, Milan, 2006) is Assistant Professor in Political Communication at the Faculty of Political Science 'Roberto Ruffilli', University of Bologna. He studies political communication in comparative perspective, with a particular focus on the new media.

Matt Blanchard

Matt Blanchard is a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication, at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. His work at PCMLP examines the relationship between the media and state-building in Africa, specifically in the case of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, and Kenya. Blanchard comes to academia from the newspaper business, having been a staff writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer until 2005. He holds an undergraduate degree from Penn in Urban Studies and was an adjunct professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia before attending Annenberg.

Andrew Harms

Andrew comes from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City where he is a member of the Howard M.

Josep Carbonell
Visitor

Josep Maria Carbonell, joins us from the Faculty of Communications Blanquerna at Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona, where he is completing a doctorate on the subject of “Democracy and Communications: The Challenge of Regulation”.  He has previously been President of RIRM (Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Bodies of Media), and his research interests are as follows:

Maria Repnikova

Maria Repnikova is Research Officer for the ESRC Project "UK-China-Africa Media Research Network".  Maria is currently a doctoral student (Rhodes scholar) at Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations, focusing on the issues of the press in China and Russia. She has received her Masters in Comparative Government from Oxford and holds a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Nabiha Syed
MSt Student

Recently named a Marshall Scholar, Nabiha Syed is the author of Replicating Dreams (Oxford University Press, 2008), a study of microfinance and marketing in Pakistan and Bangladesh. As a Yale Information Society Project student fellow, she co-founded the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum, a clinical program litigating for newsgathering and access rights. At Yale, she was also deeply involved in the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project.