Faculty
Steven Helle
(217) 244-2602
steveh - at - uiuc.edu
Education
J.D., University of Iowa
M.A., University of Iowa
B.S., University of Iowa
Affiliations
Professor of Journalism
Professor of Advertising
Course Specialties
Media law, including defamation, invasion of privacy, copyright and open meetings/freedom of information
Background
Helle is a University of Illinois Distinguished Teacher/Scholar. He was named the Freedom Forum National Journalism Teacher of the Year and twice has received the campuswide award as outstanding undergraduate teacher at the University of Illinois. He has written numerous articles on communications law in academic journals, newspapers and magazines, including the Duke Law Journal, University of Illinois Law Review and Villanova Law Review. He has also chaired the Provost's Teaching Advancement Board, received a UI Instructional Award, and chaired the University committee for the improvement of undergraduate education. Helle has chaired the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Media Law Committee of the Illinois State Bar Association, and the ISBA Human Rights Section Council.
Research/Creative Endeavor
A listing of Helle's publications appears on his vita at netfiles.uiuc.edu/steveh/www/pub.htm .
Related Links
- Links to his syllabi, vita and favorite sources on the Web: netfiles.uiuc.edu/steveh/www/
- Issues related to student expression seem to be moving from the principal's office to the law office these days, and the Internet has presented whole new issues regarding the debate over student speech rights, according to Helle: www.isba.org/Sections/humanrights/11-07.pdf
- Helle contends that "prejudicial publicity" is a spurious issue, and he wrote an essay on the subject for the Illinois Bar Journal: netfiles.uiuc.edu/steveh/www/pubprej.htm
- An important work in the oeuvre of the "Illinois School" on freedom of expression is Jay Jensen's treatise, "Liberalism, Democracy and the Mass Media": www.comm.uiuc.edu/faculty/Jensen/