Current Research Projects

PCMLP has been awarded a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to examine China’s media assistance to Africa.

The overall aims of this three-year EU-funded project are to raise the profile of media law and policy not only within Chinese academic circles but also with the regulatory and government bodies tasked with media supervision and development. Seminars, meetings and research activities will result in greater clarity in terms of interpretation of the law as it relates to the media and specifically under the new Tort law, which will give greater confidence to the courts as they apply the law in media cases, and to the media groups in terms of knowing where the boundaries lie.

PCMLP is currently engaged in research on the media and information ecology in Somalia.   In June 2011 we organized a workshop on media and the diaspora.

PCMLP held the first Oxford-India Media Law Moot Court Competition in Delhi from December 10-13, 2010.  The competition involved more than 150 students from 22 of the top law schools across India and 64 judges from different backgrounds. At the centre of the moot court is the development of a network that includes a variety of key stakeholders central to supporting and enforcing freedom of expression.