Communication Law and Policy Division

of the International Communication Association

Greetings! Welcome to the website of the Communication Law and Policy division of ICA. The CLP division is dedicated to promoting scholarly research related to communication policy. The division provides a forum where scholars can share their research and advance the field of communication policy. The CLP division’s primary activity takes place at the annual ICA conference, where members present their latest research and discuss current policy issues. Below is a slightly longer description of the division’s interests. You will notice that the description is quite inclusive. We believe that communication policy is advanced through a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches. We welcome you to join and participate in CLP!

Matt Jackson, Chair

Communication Law and Policy division

mattj@psu.edu

The Communication Law and Policy Division is interested in research and analysis of law, regulation, and policy that deals with information, communication, and culture. Defining policy broadly, the division includes within its purview principles that should or do underlie law and regulation, proposals for new law and regulation, and the programs and institutions through which policy is implemented. Every step of the legal process is of interest, from identification of social problems needing legal attention through development of alternative policy proposals, the processes by which decisions are made and laws put in place, implementation, evaluation, and critique. Since law and society are mutually constitutive, the division seeks analyses of the social forces affecting policy-making and implementation as well as of the effects of laws and regulations on society at every level of analysis. The division's scope is international, presenting work that focuses on individual nation-states, localities, or regions; comparative law; and international and global law. The Division welcomes work dealing with policy for the medium (the architecture and technologies of the global information infrastructure) as well as the message -- and the interactions between the two. Since so much decision-making with structural effect now takes place outside of formal legal structures, the Division is also interested in policy made via technical standard-setting, the design of corporate strategy, etc.

The division encourages the submission of theoretical and applied research using quantitative, qualitative, historical, and comparative methodologies that touches on any of the foregoing subjects, including private and public regulation of content and communication infrastructures.

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