مكانة قانون الإعلام و علاقته بفروع القانون الأخرى

Abstract EN

This paper is, The Law of Information, its Place and its Links to other Law Branches an attempt to examine and outline the place of the law of information and communication among the legislative system at a national and global levels, in addition of to its interactivity with the other law branches governing the legal regulation of a given society, such as Algeria.

The main question to be, problematically, posed in this context, has many things to do with the immense impact of the New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) on the different Legal aspects relating to the transnational flow of information via satellites and web sites.

It is, therefore, a question to look at the nature history of the information legislation since the reform movements in Europe, especially the British social pact and the French Revolution in 1789.

The post Second World War era, has witnessed important developments in this history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (1966), have built up the real basic fundaments to the modern Information and Communication legal systems.

These new developments have also influenced the relationships between the law of information and the other law branches mainly the international law, Constitutions, administrative, criminal laws, and codes of professional ethics self-regulating of media practices.