Kyu Ho Youm is a professor emeritus and the former inaugural holder of Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
Personal life In 1982, he earned a Master of Arts degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University, where he went on to pursue his Ph.D. in media law under the supervision of First Amendment scholar Harry Stonecipher; a Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) degree from Yale Law School; and a Master in Law degree from Oxford University, where he focused his master's comparative thesis on the First Amendment to the US Constitution vs. the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 10. (Dr. Damian Tambini, currently at the London School of Economics, was his thesis advisor.)
Works As a journalism and communication law scholar, he has published more than 100 book chaptersSee, e.g., "Journalism Law and Regulation," in Handbook of Journalism Studies (Karin Wahl-Jorgensen & Thomas Hanitzsch eds., 2009); "Legal Methods in History of Electronic Media," in Methods of Historical Analysis in Electronic Media (Donald G. Godfrey ed., 2006) and research articles in a number of leading journalism and law journalsSee, e.g., "Liberalizing British Defamation Law: A Case of Importing the First Amendment?" Communication Law & Policy (2008); "The Right of Reply and Freedom of the Press: An International and Comparative Law Perspective," George Washington Law Review (2008), http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/gwlr76&div=40&id=&page=; "Freedom of Expression and the Law: Rights and Responsibilities in South Korea," Stanford Journal of International Law (2002), http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/stanit38&div=15&id=&page= in the United States and abroad since 1985. He is the author and co-author of Press Law in South Korea and Media Law and Ethics and the co-editor of Korean Communication, Media, and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography.
Youm's law review articles have been cited by AmericanArons v. New Jersey Network, 775 A.2d 778, 29 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2334 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 2001), https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8239628966644706829&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr; Freeman v. Johnston, 192 A.D.2d 250, 601 N.Y.S.2d 606, 21 Media L. Rep. 2187 (1993), 1993 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8183, https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6559991990074920239&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr; Dworkin v. L.F.P. Inc., 839 P.2d 903, 1992 Wyo. LEXIS 133, 20 Media L. Rep. 2001 (1992), https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=326369127418255216&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr and foreign courts, including the House of Lords in Great Britain,Berezovsky v. Michaels, 2 All E.R. 986, 1 W.L.R. 1004, at https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldjudgmt/jd000511/bere-1.htm the Supreme Court of Canada,Regina v. National Post at http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2010/2010scc16/2010scc16.html the High Court of Australia,Dow Jones & Co. v. Gutnick, 2002 WL 31743880 (HCA), HCA 56, at http://www.kentlaw.edu/perritt/courses/civpro/Dow%20Jones%20&%20Company%20Inc_%20v%20Gutnick%20%5B2002%5D%20HCA%2056%20%2810%20December%202002%29.htm the Supreme Court of South Africa, and in congressional testimoniesLinda J. Silberman, the Martin Lipton Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law, in her testimony before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Feb. 12, 2009, at http://www.docstoc.com/docs/9842295/Statement-of-Professor-Linda-J-Silberman-Martin-Lipton-Professor on freedom of expression. In addition, his media law research has been used by American and international lawyers in representing their clients in press freedom litigation. As a member of the Communication Law Writers Group, Youm has been involved in writing Communication and the Law, a widely used media law college textbook in the United States."Defamation," in Communication and the Law (W. Wat Hopkins ed., 2020), at https://books.google.com/books/about/Communication_and_the_Law.html?id=MGw3ywEACAAJ As an area editor, he has edited nearly 50 articles on communication law and media policy for the 12-volume International Encyclopedia of Communication.Editor, "Communication and Law, Media Policy," in International Encyclopedia of Communication (Blackwell and the International Communication Association, 2008-), at http://www.communicationencyclopedia.com/public/editors He has been named one of seven scholars producing the "most promising" research in journalism and mass communication.Greg Leichty, Jeff Springston, and W.A. "Kelly" Huff, "Core Works in Journalism and Mass Communication: Views from the Top Scholars in the Field" (1991), at https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED366018 Currently, Youm serves on the editorial boards of a dozen major law and communication journals in the United States, England, and Australia, including Journal of Media Law (London), Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Communication Law & Policy, and Media & Arts Law Review.http://journalism.uoregon.edu/user/youm . See also Yung Soo Kim, "Searching for an Exemplary Teacher," Professors Newspaper, May 3, 2010, at http://www.kyosu.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=20322. He has co-guested edited the special issue of Communication Law and Policy on international and comparative law.
Youm has been profiled in AmericanEric Schucht, "Kyu Ho Youm’s work reshaped free speech laws worldwide," AroundtheO, Jan. 11, 2018, https://around.uoregon.edu/content/kyu-ho-youms-work-reshaped-free-speech-laws-worldwide; Anita Carcone, "'Best Revenge': Success Achieved Through Discipline, Determination," Arizona Republic, Oct. 30, 1991 and foreign publications online and off-line.Jumi Kim, "Legal Interview: The Global Authority on Media Law Authority, Prof. Kyu Ho Youm at the University of Oregon,” Law & Justice (Korean), Dec. 2018, http://www.lec.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=49046; Bae Mun-song, "Korean Intellectual of the World," Munwha Daily, Nov. 22, 2001 (Korean), at http://www.munhwa.com/news/view.html?no=2001112201012330080002; "Korean Brain Power at the Prestigious Universities in the Northeast of the U.S." Monthly Joongang, Feb. 7, 2001 (Korean), at http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?ctg=10&Total_ID=1594093 He is active on social media and especially on Twitter about freedom of media and communication in the US and abroad. In September 2011, Forbes.com's columnist Ben Kerschberg noted Youm's tweeting (@MarshallYoum)in "Eight Great Law & Technology Resources." In April 2010, Youm was elected vice president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the premier academic organization of 3,600-plus JMC educators and practitioners in the U.S. and globally. He served as AEJMC president-elect in 2011 and president in 2012. In August 2020, he received the AEJMC Presidential Award, which he has dedicated to his late wife, Bokim. In 2021, Youm was elected as International Communication Association (ICA) Fellow.
Youm has contributed to American and foreign newspapers and been interviewed by major news media and regional and local news media.
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