Rate My Professor Jason Bosland

Bosland's research specializations lie in defamation and privacy law, open justice principles and their interaction with media reporting, contempt of court, and freedom of speech issues. His scholarly output includes prominent works such as the co-authored textbook Media Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary published by Oxford University Press in 2022 (with David Rolph, Judith Bannister, Daniel Joyce, Michael Douglas, and Jason Gill); The Principle of Open Justice and the Judicial Duty to Give Public Reasons in the Melbourne University Law Review (volume 38, issue 2, pages 482-524, 2014, co-authored with Jason Gill); Open Justice, Transparency and the Media: Representing the Public Interest in the Physical and Virtual Courtroom in Communications Law (volume 23, issue 4, pages 183-202, 2018, with Judith Townend); The Culture of Trade Marks: An Alternative Cultural Theory Perspective in Media & Arts Law Review (volume 10, issue 2, 2005); and Republication of Defamation under the Doctrine of Reportage—The Evolution of Common Law Qualified Privilege in England and Wales in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (volume 31, issue 1, pages 89-110, 2011). Furthermore, he contributes to the field as co-editor of the Media & Arts Law Review and as a member of the Media and Communications Committee of the Law Council of Australia. He is also an associate member of the Canadian Media Lawyers Association and affiliated with the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA).