Professor David Nobles and Professor Richard Schiff gave a conference paper on 'Structural coupling between the systems of law and the media: the contrasting examples of criminal conviction and criminal appeal' at the conference on 'Applied Systems Theory - Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Self-Referential Systems: Theoretical and Empirical Research'. The conference was held at The Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia on 14th-18th September 2009.