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Marie McGonagle

Marie McGonagle
B.A. (Belf.), LL.B., LL.M.(NUI)

Tel.: 353 (0)91 492179
Room 402, Floor 2, Tower 2
Office hours by appointment.
email: marie.mcgonaglenuigalway.ie

Marie McGonagle is the Director of the LL.M. in Public Law. Her research interests lie in the areas of freedom of expression, Media and Communications Law. She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Poitiers, France, and Maastricht, The Netherlands, as well as a visiting scholar at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford , and the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. Since 1997 she has been a member of a panel of independent experts monitoring freedom of expression and media law issues in the Member States of the Council of Europe at the request of the Secretary General of the Council. She is also the Irish correspondent for the European Audiovisual Observatory in Strasbourg and has been involved in a number of research projects with the Observatory. In 2004 she was nominated by the Irish Government to a Focus Group established by the European Commission in Brussels as part of its review of the Television without Frontiers Directive. She has contributed to several studies related to the Directive co-ordinated by the Hans Bredow Institute in Hamburg and the Institute of European Media Law (EMR) in Saarbrüken . At a national level she has acted as a legal consultant to many industry and regulatory bodies in the media field, including the national newspapers and the Broadcasting Commission, most recently in formulating and reviewing the Commission's policy on pluralism and diversity in the broadcast media.

COURSES TAUGHT

• Applied Communications
• Communications Law
• Entertainment Law
• Family Law
• Media Law

PUBLICATIONS

Publications include:

Books:

• Media Law , lxvi 493pp., 2nd edition, Dublin : Thomson Round Hall, 2003; st edition, Dublin : Gill and Macmillan,1996.
• Law and the Media: the views of journalists and lawyers , (ed.), xxxvii 319pp., Dublin : Round Hall/Sweet and Maxwell, 1997.

Reports/Series:

• 2005. Country Report - Ireland , EU Commission Report on Co-regulation measures, in the media sector, available at http://co-reg.hans-bredow-institut.de and http://europa.eu.int/comm/avpolicy
• 2005. Country Report - Ireland , EU Commission Report on television advertising, available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/avpolicy
• 2004. Report on Broadcasting Law and the dual system for funding public service broadcasting in Ireland in Report on the European Law on Broadcasting , and National Report on Austria , Institute for European Media Law (EMR), Saarbrüken, Germany, 2003-4, both available at http://www.rtr.at/web.nsf/lookuid
• 2001. Consultation paper on ownership and control of the broadcasting media, and Discussion Paper for policy revision, for the Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC, now BCI), Dublin , May 2001, available at http://www.bci.ie
• 2000. With other invited contributors, Defining Defamation: Principles of Freedom of Expression and Protection of Reputation , International Standards Series, Article 19, London , available at http://www.article19.org/pdfs/standards/definingdefamation.pdf .
• 1998. Country Report - Ireland, E.U. Study of Parental Control of Audiovisual and Electronic Media, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford, available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/avpolicy .
• 1995. With Prof. K. Boyle, Media Accountability: The Readers' Representative in Irish Newspapers , Dublin, National Newspapers of Ireland, 1995, and A Report on Press Freedom and Libel , Dublin, National Newspapers of Ireland, 1988.

Chapters/sections of books:

• 2001. "Defamation", "Privacy", "Journalists' Sources", "Censorship in Ireland", "Abortion", "Birth Control", in Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, (4 volumes), Fitzroy & Dearborn Publishers, London and Chicago.
• 1999. Law Module, Training Resource Manual for the Independent Radio Sector in Ireland , Women On Air, p.1 - 214. (Also available in Irish).
• 1998. "A Right to Reply", in Manfred Wichmann and Wolfgang Heinz, eds, Freedom of Expression and Human Rights Protection , Brussels : Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, pp.271-292.

 

 

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