Department: Bachelor of Law
Module Description: The module covers essential legal aspects of media including privacy, breach of confidence, defamation, hatred speech, etc. It also discusses the duties and rights of journalists. The module covers topics including international law and media; establishment of news agency; journalists’’ rights and duties; duties of editors; online publications; liability for illegal online publications; duties of the creator and/or owner of websites; liability for false news and information, and legal procedures and penalties. It is intended to explain and discuss the relevant main topics under both English law and UAE law.
The module coordinator will provide students with mandatory texts on UAE Law prepared purposefully for this particular module.
Peter Carey, Media Law, (5th ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2010) Purchase eBook
Mike Dodd & Mark Hanna, McNae's Essential Law for Journalists, (26th ed., Oxford UP, 2022) Purchase eBook
Eric Barendt, Media Law: Text, Cases & Materials, (Pearson, 2013)
Douglas Maule, Zhongdong Niu, Media Law Essentials, (Edinburgh UP, 2010)
