The societal, cultural, economic and political dimensions of communication, including the freedom of speech and press, are undergoing dramatic global changes. The convergence of the mass media, telecommunications and computers has raised important questions reflected in analyses of modern communication law, policy and regulation. Serving as a forum for discussions of these continuing and emerging questions, Communication Law and Policy considers traditional and contemporary problems of freedom of expression and dissemination, including theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues inherent in the special conditions presented by new media and information technologies.

The journal seeks research that is informed theoretically by First Amendment constitutional analyses, historical approaches to communication law and policy issues, contemporary social theory literatures that treat the law as cultural forms, the sociology and philosophy of law, system approaches, critical theory and other appropriate theoretical bases. The journal publishes rigorously reasoned and thoroughly researched studies based on traditional legal research, social science techniques or ethnographic, international or comparative analyses. Communication Law and Policy also publishes articles using other appropriate approaches to pertinent topics. Manuscripts are sought from those in the academic fields of journalism and mass communication, communication, telecommunication, law, business, sociology, political science and cognate disciplines, as we as practicing attorneys, policy makers and policy analysts.