Ana AzurmendiAna Azurmendi is a Graduate in Law and in Journalism. She has PhD from the University of Navarra, Spain. She is professor of Media Law at the Faculty of Communication since 1991 and Director of the Center for Internet Studies and Digital Life,University of Navarra. She has participated in political and institutional projects as an expert: in the Commission on the Project of Reform of Basque Broadcasting, Basque Parliament (December 2016), in the Commission on the New Audiovisual Law of Galicia, Galician Parliament (December 2010) and in the Commission on the Right of Reply, Mexican Senate (January 2014). She was also a Consultant of the Legal Vice-presidency, Televisa Corporation, on the issues Pluralism and Crossownership, Must-Carry and Must-Offer Duties and Right of Reply in Mexico (October 2013). She was appointed as professor at the 'Comparative Media Law' Programme, University of Oxford (summer 2006) and at University of Paris II (spring 2003); at the Doctoral Programme on 'Human Rights', University of Salamanca and Panamericana University (2007-2008) in México DF; at the Doctoral Programme on 'Media Law' of UNAMUniversity of Occidente-Iberoamericana University (2000-2003), in Michoacán, Sinaloa, México. She has been the professor of Intellectual Property at the Master on 'Digital Creativity and Communication', University of Coruña, Spain (1998-2009). She is leading the I+D Research Project: Transformation on the Regional Television (2013-2017) sponsored by the Ministry of Economy of Competitiveness. She has been a researcher of different projects: PIUNA Project The Impact of digitization on the Audiovisual Industry in Spain (2010-2013); I+D Project, sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Innovation: Internet impact to the redefinition of the Spanish Regional Public Broadcasting (2009-2012). She has been the leader of the I+D project: Public Broadcasting The Challenge of the Digital Era (2004-2007) sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science, and of the Contract of Research on Audiovisual Authorities with the Audiovisual Authority of Navarra (2008). Editor of the Spanish journal Communication&Society (1997-2013).She has been a visiting professor at the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law de la University of Minnesota, USA in 1993, at the Faculty of Administrative Studies, University of York, Toronto, Canada in 1995, at the Center for Socio-Legal Studies de la Universidad de Oxford, UK in 2006 and 2007, at the Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK in 2011 and at the School of Journalism University of North Carolina, USA in 2013. She is the author of books Derecho de la Comunicación (2016 and 2011), La Reforma de la Televisión Pública Española (2007), El derecho a la propia imagen (1997 and 1998), El Consejo Audiovisual de Navarra. Sus funciones y competencias en el contexto europeo de regulación del sector audiovisual (2009) among others. Her books have been cited in the case law on freedom of expression by the Constitutional Court of Chile and Peru and by the Parliamentary Commission on regulation of the rights of journalists in Mexico. Read More Read Less