My research falls into three primary tracks. The first is focused on ethics and is broadly concerned with journalistic identity, professionalism and accountability. The second addresses the constitutionality of government restraints on newsgathering and the legal distinctions between the acquisition and expression of information. And the third is focused on the policy rationales and constitutional theories underlying government supervision of digital media. I am particularly interested in comparative analyses of these subjects, focusing on Europe and on interpretations and applications of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Articles
Newspaper Theft, Self-Preservation and the Dimensions of Censorship (with Jennifer Lambe), Communication Law & Policy (2010)
One of the most common yet understudied means of suppressing free expression on college and...
The New Abridged Reporter's Privilege: Policies, Principles and Pathological Perspectives, Ohio State Law Journal (2010)
This Article contends that contemporary arguments about the reporter’s privilege are increasingly situated within a...
Newsgathering, Autonomy, and the Special-Rights Apocrypha: Supreme Court and Media Litigant Conceptions of Press Freedom, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2009)
This Article addresses the validity of several long-standing assumptions about the Supreme Court’s free-press jurisprudence...
The Aims of Public Scholarship in Media Law and Ethics, Journal of Media Law & Ethics (2009)
This essay urges scholars in media law and ethics to reevaluate the extent and utility...
Demarcating the Right to Gather News: A Sequential Interpretation of the First Amendment, Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy (2008)
The recent spate of cases in which reporters have been subpoenaed, fined, jailed, or otherwise...