Mark D. Cole

Mark D. Cole (* 1972 ) is professor for the law of new information technologies, media and communication law at the University of Luxembourg , Scientific Director at the Institute for European Media Law (EMR) in Saarbrücken / Brussels and lecturer for media and competition law in Mainz and Saarbrücken. He is also co-director of the Institute for Legal Information Systems, Saarland University , Saarbrücken and a member of the scientific advisory board of the European IT Academy of Law (EEAR), Merzig.

Life

Cole studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1992 to 1997 . He passed the first state examination in 1998 and the second state examination in 2004. At the same time, Cole studied political science and philosophy up to the intermediate examination. In 2003 he received his doctorate as Dr. iur. (summa cum laude) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on the topic “The right of indigenous peoples to self-determination. An international legal inventory using the example of Native Americans in the USA ”. (Work awarded the 2004 Research Promotion Prize of the Friends of Mainz University eV).

Since 2004 Cole has been a lecturer for the “European Media Law” course in the LL.M. advanced training course “Media Law” at the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Mainz Media Institute . He is a member of the state examination office for lawyers in Rhineland-Palatinate. Since 2009 he has been a lecturer for the course "European Media Competition Law - Case Studies" in the LL.M. course "European and International Law" at the European Institute of Saarland University, Saarbrücken. At the University of Luxembourg, Cole is a professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) a. a. Director of studies for the "Master in European Law LL.M.", faculty member in the "Interdisciplinary Center Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)" and member of the faculty council of the FDEF.

His research and publications focus on all media law , both with a view to traditional mass media and new forms of media with a special focus on European and comparative media law.

Memberships

• Faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Center Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg
• Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for European Media Law, Saarbrücken
• Member of the European IT Academy of Law (EEAR), Merzig
• Co-Director of the Institute for Legal Informatics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
• Member of the study group for press law and freedom of the press eV

Publications (excerpt)

• Co-editor / author of the works “Handbook Media Law - Law of Electronic Mass Media” (Dörr / Kreile / Cole, 2nd edition 2011, Frankfurt a. M., Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft), “European and International Media Law” (Fink / Cole / Keber, 2008, Heidelberg, CF Müller) and "Commentary on the Interstate Broadcasting Agreement" (Hartstein / Ring / Kreile / Dörr / Stettner / Cole / Wagner, Heidelberg, Hüthig / Jehle / Rehm, loose leaf) as well as author of numerous articles on media law in German, English and French.
• Note d'observations, “Roj TV” entre ordre public et principle du pays d'origine . In: Revue du Droit des Technologies de l'Information (RDTI), No. 47 (2012), pp. 50-61
• Luxembourg, Country report in: European Parliament / DG for Internal Policies - Policy Dept. C Citizen's Rights and Constitutional Affairs (Ed.), The Citizen's Right to Information: Law and Policy in the EU and its Member States, Brussels 2012, pp. 465-480
• Review of the EU Telecommunications Framework and its Impact on the Frequency Management in: Hofmann, M. (Ed.), International Regulations of Space Communications: Current Issues, Larcier 2013, pp. 137–160
• European and global regulatory approaches , in: Eumann u. a. (Ed.): Media, network and the public - impulses for the digital society. Klartext, Essen 2013, pp. 395–405
• Editor of the current developments in European Data Protection Law 2014 / I of the critical quarterly publication (KritV / CritQ / RCrit) with introduction on pp. 5–9 and article "EU Data Retention"
• Finally Abolished? Eight Years in Light of Article 8 ” , pp. 58-78 (Cole / Boehm)

Web links

• Profile Mark Cole at the University of Luxembourg
• Institute for European Media Law
• University of Luxembourg. Media law.
• List of publications