This course focuses on legal issues facing the media, including defamation, privacy, access to courts and legal materials, news-gathering torts, and prior restraints. It examines both the relevant substantive area of law and the litigant’s strategy in the case materials we read, with an eye toward understanding how claims against the media can be brought and defended against.

This upper-level course covers the substantive area of law and the litigant’s strategy.

Recommended for the following Professional Pathways: Media, Entertainment, Sports, Fashion; Tech/Privacy; Civil Rights/Civil Liberties

2 Credits