Lex Ferenda

Here is my recently-written paper on the European Commission’s proposals to amend the Television Without Frontiers directive. I review the proposed amendments, focusing on the regulation of new media, such as Web streaming and on-demand download services. My main argument is that the philosophy of technological neutrality is an inappropriate (theoretical and practical, rather than legal) basis for the formation of regulatory policy.

I’d be interested in any comments or feedback, as this is very much at an early stage. The paper was presented to the UACES European studies conference in Limerick, Ireland last week. However, it’s part of my ongoing doctoral research and may also find its way into print in a revised format in future.

Well, I’ve been working on the first Irish conference on legal education, “Education, Teaching, Learning and Research in the Irish Legal Academy” - a one-day symposium taking place in Trinity College Dublin on Friday 29th September 2006 (how many times have I written that recently?). I’ve been working away on a lot of background things, with my supervisor Eoin O’Dell taking the lead - however the most fun bit has been designing (well, tearing apart a WordPress template) the website and populating it with content. We’ve just opened registration and there’s no charge to attend - so if you’re interested in a day of discussions, workshops and questions about legal education, please stop by the site, check out the programme, and fill in the registration form (which forced me to re-learn how to do even the most basic of Web forms!) to book your place.

So, it’s not that I had a longer holiday than expected! Nor was I captured by rival bloggers as punishment for poor posting habits. No, I came back from my break and swept straight into a number of projects, and also had patchy Web access.

Projects, you say?

Going to put them in separate posts. Just because I can.