Grantees

Juliet Dee

Associate Professor of Communication

Newark, DE 19716
302-831-8041
[email protected]

Biography

Juliet Dee is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware. She teaches courses in First Amendment law, mass communication and culture, broadcast news writing, and television production. She has been director of the Legal Studies Program at the University of Delaware, and has been an editor of the Free Speech Yearbook, and is a co-author of Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell (2007). She received her bachelors degree from Princeton University, her masters degree from Northwestern University, and her doctorate from Temple University. She has published articles or book chapters on First Amendment issues involving controversial artwork funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, copyright infringement, anonymous defamation on the Internet, objectionable lyrics in rock music and hip-hop, media liability for violent content, media liability for classified ads for hitmen, and the issue of cyberbullying and the First Amendment. She has also published articles or book chapters on landmark Supreme Court cases such as Whitney v. California(1927), Near v. Minnesota (1931), and the penumbra metaphor that became a basis for landmark Supreme Court decisions on privacy. During the 2009-2010 academic year, she directed the senior honors thesis for Helen Wolf, entitled Public Opinion Regarding the Role of Government in Regulating Violent Video Games.?