Dr. Monroe Price

Biography

Monroe E. Price is an Adjunct Full Professor and Director of the Center for Global Communications Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has a distinguished academic and professional background, having served as the dean of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law from 1982 to 1991. Price graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1966 and was the executive editor of the Yale Law Journal. He has also clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court and held the position of Assistant Secretary of Labor under W. Willard Wirtz. Before his current role, he was a professor at UCLA Law School from 1967 to 1982 and is recognized as a founding director of the Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford. Furthermore, he is a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has held fellowships at the Media Studies Center. Price has directed the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London and served as Chair of the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University in Budapest. His scholarly contributions include significant works on media law and policy, including 'Media Sovereignty: Global Information Revolution and the Challenge to State Power' and 'Television, the Public Sphere, and National Identity.'

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