During three weeks (5^th to 23^rd of June 2010) the students of the school have studied the issues of TV and radio regulation, privacy protection, freedom of expression, access to information, litigation practice in defamation cases, regulation of informational flow in the Internet, legal control over electoral agitation, public morals protection, intellectual property rights etc.

Along with traditional lectures the participants took part in thematic events. For instance, on the 6^th of July they joined an expert seminar on concentration of media ownership; on the 14^th of July – a round table on the guarantees of editorial freedom of broadcasting companies’ journalists; on the 20 th of July – a round table on denationalization of press. Finally, on the 22^nd of July the students discussed concepts of the future public service broadcasting in Ukraine on the round table, organized by the Public Council within the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio.

Moreover, the students paid a visit to the Supreme Council of Ukraine (they had an excursion there and a class with Andriy Shevchenko, the Head of the Parliamentary Committee for the Freedom of Speech and Information), as well as to the Ministry of Justice, where the students attended a lecture of Yuriy Zaytsev, the Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights.

This year among the participants of the school were scholars, practicing lawyers and law students from Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Georgia. In particular, there were scientists from the V.N.KarazinKharkivNationalUniversity and TajikNationalUniversity, practicing attorneys, Ukrainian lawyers from “Pilot Studio”, Ukrainian Banks Association and Business Radio Group. The school greeted foreign participants from the Social Initiative of Internet Policy (Kyrgyzstan), Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia (Georgia), The Centre for Legal Support of Media and Journalists in Dushanbe, International Centre for Non-Commercial Law, Bureau on Human Rights and Observance of Lawfulness (Tajikistan). Students of Kyiv-MohylaAcademy took this training too, as well as the representatives of some other companies.

The lecturers on this year’s summer school were Boyko Boev, Article 19’s lawyer (London, Great Britain); Jeremy Davidson and Troels Larsen, media law experts from London, Great Britain; Olena Dmytrenko, European Court of Human Rights lawyer (Strasbourg, France); Vasyl Paliyuk, Mykolayiv Regional Appellate Court judge and a candidate of legal sciences; Alexey Minbaleev, South Ural State University lecturer and a candidate of legal sciences (Chelyabinsk, Russia); Andriy Shevchenko, MP of Ukraine and the Head of the Parliamentary Committee for the Freedom of Speech and Information; Taras Shevchenko, Media Law Institute director, and other Ukrainian and foreign media law experts.

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