Kevin AquilinaKevin Aquilina is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta where he is also the Head of the Department of Media, Communications and Technology Law. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Law from the London Schoolof Economics and Political Science of the University of London, a Doctor of Law (LLD) from the University of Malta and a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Maritime Law from the International Maritime Organization's International Maritime Law Institute. He currently lectures on Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Human Rights Law, Media Law and the Maltese Legal System at the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta. Professor Aquilina has held the office of Chief Executive of the constitutionally established Maltese audiovisual broadcasting regulator - the Broadcasting Authority - for over ten years. He also served as Chairman of the Press Ethics Commission - the self-regulatory media body which hears and decides complaints against journalists. Professor Aquilina served for eleven years as Chairman of the Planning Appeals Board, and subsequently as Legal Advisor to the Planning Appeals Board and Member of the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal. Professor Aquilina has authored various books, written several reports for Maltese and foreign institutions, drafted many primary and subsidiary laws and has published papers in edited books and articles in peer reviewed journals apart from various contributions to the print, broadcasting and new media. His books include: A List of Maltese Maritime Legislation Together with a Subject Index (Mid-Med Bank, Malta: June 1992, i + 88 pp.); Development Planning Legislation: The Maltese Experience (Malta: Mireva Publications, May 1999, xciii + 616 pp.); a six-volume compilation of Decisions of the Planning Appeals Board (Malta: Legal Publishing (Enterprises) Ltd., 1995-1998 consisting of 1,208 pp. in all). Apart from having authored all the Annual Reports of the Broadcasting Authority for the period 1999-2008, Professor Aquilina has co-authored in 2007 a publication and compact disk entitled Maltese Broadcasting Legislation: Salient Documentation as part of the Broadcasting Authority's Broadcasting Studies Series. In 2013 he co-authored Il Sistema Ambiente, Tra Etica, Diritto Ed Economia, published in Italy by CEDAM, Casa Editrice Dott. Antonio Milani. His latest international book is Media Law in Malta in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws Series (The Netherlands: Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, September 2014, 240 pp.). Professor Aquilina's papers have been published in international peer reviewed journals such as Computer Law & Security Review, International Journal of Private Law, Journal of Civil Law Studies, Cambrian Law Review, Commonwealth Law Bulletin, International Journal of Public Law and Policy, Journal of Medical Ethics, Dike Kai Nomos, EUCRIM: The European Criminal Law Associations' Forum, Comparative Law Review, European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance, International Human Rights Law Review, Global Journal of Comparative Law, International Human Rights Law Review, International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Law Reform and Maltese peer reviewed journals such as Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, Malta Medical Journal, Melita Historica, Melita Theologica, BOV Review, Law and Practice, Future Generations Journal, European Law Students Association (ELSA) Malta Law Review and Id-Dritt Law Journal. Professor Aquilina is the Maltese regular contributor to IRIS - Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, of the Council of Europe. He has served as the editor of the Broadcasting Authority's Broadcasting Studies Series. Read More Read Less