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The Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research was developed to provide a forum for open dialogue and scholarship related to media law and policy around the world, notably in areas of crisis and transition. The Director of the Centre, Professor Monroe E. Price, Founding Director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at Oxford University, as well as the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, has an extensive background in comparative communications law and policy research and the study of media and crisis.
The Centre brings together a group of scholars, experts, lawyers, and graduate students in a variety of academic disciplines in London in order to create a laboratory for interdisciplinary communications studies. Current activities include:
- The Stanhope Werkstätte—a group of young academics working to understand the general problem of Internet technology and policy;
- Research on media conflict and regulation and their relationship to crisis;
- Serving as a conference site and meeting place;
- Hosting media and communications scholars in residence; offering student research internships for MA and PhD students working in the field of media policy research; and
- Developing a new website that will aid in the research and understanding of media development and policy globally.
Stanhope Centre is also involved in research in Asia and the Middle East as it develops joint projects in these regions. It has been commissioned by Internews to develop a database of media regulation and reform in the Middle East and Maghreb. The board members are Mark Stephens (Finers Stephens Innocent), Kurt Wimmer (Covington and Burling) and Monroe Price. The Stanhope Centre has been developing relationships with key universities in London and scholars interested in media law and policy.
The Centre is operated in association with the Freedom Forum, Markle Foundation, and the Howard M. Squadron Program in Media, Law and Society, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.