Media Law and Ethics in the 21st Century

James Lewis is Director of Media Content at the International Bar Association. Paul Crick is an Independent Consultant for the International Bar Association.The International Bar Association is the world's leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. It has a membership of more than 50,000 individual lawyers and 206 bar associations and law societies spanning all continents. The IBA influences the development of international law reform and shapes the future of the legal profession throughout the world.

• Preface; Mark Stephens CBEPART I: THE LEGAL, ETHICAL AND EDITORIAL LANDSCAPE1. Privacy: A Judicial Perspective; Justice Eady2. The Rights of Journalism and the Needs of Audiences; Baroness Onora O'Neill3. Why we write: three magic words – 'the public interest'; Alan RusbridgerPART II: THE PRACTITIONER'S VIEW PROTECTING FREE EXPRESSION AND CURBING ABUSES4. The Ultimate Balancing Act; Pia Sarma5. Privacy Protection – Luxury Goods Or Essential Commodity?; Amber Melville-Brown6. 'People are so much more interesting than things': Protecting free expression; Gavin Millar KC7. 'You Say Tomato…': A Comparison of English and U.S. Privacy Law Principles; Robert Balin and Yuli TakatsukiPART III: CONFRONTING CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES8. Privacy and Free Expression: competing or complementary rights?; Kirsty Hughes and Michael Harris, Index on Censorship9. The Internet as a Lens: US Concepts of Privacy in Online Spaces; Jeff Hermes.