Andrew Kenyon is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law in the Melbourne Law School. He researches in comparative media and communications law, including defamation, privacy, copyright, journalism and media policy. As well as legal doctrine, this research examines social and cultural aspects of law. He is the editor of the international refereed journal, the Media & Arts Law Review, a Network Participant in the Australian Research Council Cultural Research Network, and past president of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand.
He has law degrees from the universities of Melbourne and London, is admitted to practise law in Victoria, and his memberships include the International Communications Association, the European Communication Research and Education Association, and the Socio-Legal Studies Association.
Recent articles and working papers can be found via Melbourne Legal Studies on the Legal Scholarship Network, as well as being listed under Publications, above.
Media law: Australian, English, US and ASEAN defamation law, news production practices and public debate; privacy, defamation and journalism; digital television; digital communications regulation; copyright and technology.
Art and law: copyright, digitisation, cultural institutions and creators.
Legal theory: free speech and social theory.
Other Faculty and University Responsibilities
Editor, Melbourne Legal Studies (research paper series on the SSRN's Legal Scholarship Network)