Matthew D. Bunker

Reese Phifer Professor of Journalism

Ph.D., University of Florida, 1993

Dr. Bunker, who also holds a law degree, is a former head of the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and serves on the editorial board of several academic journals in mass communication. He primarily teaches media law and policy, and his research interests include First Amendment theory and doctrine, intellectual property law, and interdisciplinary legal approaches.

Representative publications

Bunker, M. D. (2005). Transforming the news: Copyright and fair use in news-related contexts. Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., 52, 309-327.

Bunker, M. D., & Perry, D. K. (2004). Standing at the crossroads: Social science, human agency, and free speech law. Communication Law and Policy, 9, 1-23.

Bunker, M. D. (2001). Critiquing free speech: First Amendment theory and the challenge of interdisciplinarity. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. *This book was a finalist for the 2001 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award.