Monroe Edwin Price (born 1938) was director of the
University of Pennsylvania
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's
Center for Global Communication Studies
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(CGCS) at the
and director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London.
In the early 1970s, Price was deputy director of the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications, an entity which produced the report "On the Cable, The Television of Abundance" (1971).
Price's first scholarly and public interest achievements were in the area of American Indian Law. In the 1970s, he published ''Law and the American Indian''.
He also helped foun
California Indian Legal Servicesand the
Native American Rights Fund
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. His work coincided with his tenure at the
UCLA School of Law
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, where he was a professor. For much of the decade, he represented
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., a Native Corporation established under the Alaska Native Claims Act and served as counsel for
Munger, Tolles & Olson
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in Los Angeles. In the early 1980s, he was the court-appointed referee in Crawford v. Los Angeles Board of Education, the Los Angeles school desegregation case.
He is also the Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law and director of the Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society at the
Cardozo School of Law
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, where he served as dean from 1982 to 1991.
Professor Price was founding director of the Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at the
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
. In honor of his role, PCMLP created an International Media Media Law Moot Court competition after him, the annual
Price Media Law Moot Court. He also established the Center for Media, Data and Society at
Central European University
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. His work on media and the post-1989 transitions included service on the Commission on Radio and Television Policy, established late in the
Gorbachev
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era to bring together Soviet and US professionals and academics working on broadcasting and society.
During this period, Price established and edited the Post-Soviet Media Law and Policy Newsletter. This eventuated in a book, Russian Media Law and Policy in the Yeltsin Decade, edited by him, Andrei Richter and Peter Yu.
After graduating from the
Yale Law School
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, Price was a law clerk to associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court
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,
Potter Stewart
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. He was assistant to the
Secretary of Labor
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,
W. Willard Wirtz
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, 1965–1966. He was a researcher for
the Warren Commission(
).
Price has been a Member of the School of Social Sciences at the
Institute for Advanced Study
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at Princeton, a fellow of the
Media Studies Center
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, and a resident scholar at the
Rockefeller Foundation
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Bellagio Center. He has given many lectures, including the 2001 Graham Spry Lecture, and has organized conferences with the American-Austrian Foundation, the
Oxford Internet Institute
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,
Communications University of China
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,
Renmin University
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,
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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, and others.
Price is best known as a communications scholar for theories developed in a 1994 article in the
Yale Law Journal
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, the '
Market for Loyalties. This theory examines media regulation in terms of a market with an exchange, not of cash for goods or services, but identity for loyalty.
Among his many books are ''Media and Sovereignty'' (
MIT Press
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, 2002), ''Television, The Public Sphere and National Identity'' (
Oxford University Press
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, 1996), and ''Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China'' (
University of Michigan Press
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, 2008, edited with Daniel Dayan). In 2007, Price published a memoir, ''Objects of Remembrance: A Memoir of American Opportunities and Viennese Dreams''. The book, chronicles the experienced of becoming an American in the 1950s, as a Midwest child of refugees.
He holds a B.A. and a LL.B (now a Juris Doctor) from
Yale University
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.
See also
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References
External links
Penn Gazette Article Across the Borderline By Samuel Hughes and Katie Haegele May-June 2007*
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Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
1938 births
Living people
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Yale Law School alumni
Yale University alumni
People associated with Munger, Tolles & Olson