- Interests:
- Media Industries, Politics / Political Communication, Legislative process
- Discipline(s)
- Law
- Role(s):
- Researcher, Activist/Advocate
Biography
Jelena Surculija is a lawyer currently reading for the LLM in Computer and Communications Law at Queen Mary, University of London. She has worked as a legal consultant to GIPI (Global Internet Policy Initiative) and as an external consultant and media legislation expert to the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro. Ms. Surculija graduated from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, in 2000 and completed the Media Law Advocates Training Programme at the PCMLP, Oxford University, in 2002. She is a founder member of the International Media Lawyers Association. She was actively involved in drafting new media laws in Serbia, initiated and assisted the establishing of the Association of Internet Service Providers and of Internet Users. She has held training courses for journalists on Article 10 ECHR and on media legislation. Her publications include The Legal Situation in Serbia (SEEMO Handbook 2003/04) and a study The European Legal Framework for ICT in Serbia.
Publications and Resources
Books
- Yaman Akdeniz, Sylvie Coudray, Gus Hosein, Nico van Eijk, Miklos Haraszti, Mogens Schmidt, Jelena Surculija, Jane Tallim, Cathy Wing, Hans J. Kleinsteuber, Arnaud Amouroux, Steve Buckley, Dejan Milenkovic, Christian Möller, Lee Hibbard. The Media Freedom Internet Cookbook. 2004
