Peter Molnar

Bio

Peter Molnar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University. A former member of the Hungarian Parliament, Molnar was one of the drafters of the 1996 Hungarian media law. Since 1994, he has been teaching communications law at ELTE University in Budapest. Additionally, he taught a freedom of speech course at the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California in Berkeley in 2002 and at the Graduate School of Journalism and Communication of the University of Colorado in 2005. He was a German Marshall Fellow in Summer 1996, a Fulbright fellow at Cardozo School of Law and at Columbia Law School in 1999 and 2000, a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University in Spring 2000 and he is a Fulbright fellow again at Cardozo in Spring 2008. Since 2002, he has been working as legislative advisor for the Parliament and the government of the Republic of Hungary. Since 2001, he has been member of the Complaint Commission of the Hungarian Radio and Television Board. He wrote extensively on communication law and freedom of speech.

In June 2006 Peter participated in the ICA pre-conference and the COST A30 meeting in Budapest. He drafted the Declaration for the Freedom of the Internet that was signed by many media scholars.