Ronald Krotoszynski
John S. Stone Chairholder
University of Alabama School of Law

András Koltay
Professor
University of Public Service and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University

Charlotte Garden
Julius E. Davis Professor of Law
University of Minnesota

David Pozen
Charles Keller Beejman Professor of Law
Columbia Law School

Hawley Johnson
Associate Director
Global Freedom of Expression, Columbia University

Ronald Krotoszynski, John S. Stone Chairholder of Law and Director of Faculty Research, University of Alabama School of Law

Professor Krotoszynski earned his B.A. and M.A. from Emory University and J.D. and LL.M. from Duke University where he was articles editor for the Duke Law Journal and selected for Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and was an associate with Covington & Burling, D.C. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, Professor Krotoszynski served on the law faculty at Washington and Lee University and, prior to that, on the law faculty of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. He also has taught as a visiting professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, at the Florida State University College of Law, and at Brooklyn Law School. Krotoszynski has held appointments as a visiting scholar in residence at the University of Washington-Seattle School of Law, the Seattle University School of Law, and the Lewis and Clark School of Law.

András Koltay, Professor, University of Public Service and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University

András Koltay is a lawyer, professor at the University of Public Service and the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. He obtained his LL.M. (Master of Law) degree from University College London in 2007, prior to that he also studied at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Law at the Pázmány University in 2008. From 2010 to 2019 he worked as a member of the Media Council, from 2018 to 2021 he held the position of rector of the National University of Public Service. His main research interests are in the areas of freedom of expression, media law and personal rights. He published his monograph entitled A szólásszabadság alapvonalai [The Foundations of Freedom of Speech] (Századvég) in 2009, his books Freedom of Speech, Religions and the State (Századvég) and New Media and Freedom of Expression(Wolters Kluwer) were published in 2016 and 2019 respectively. In addition, he has more than 400 scientific publications in Hungarian and in English. He is editor-in-chief of Iustum Aequum Salutare, a law journal, as well as In Medias Res, an academic journal on freedom of press and media regulation. Between 2010 and 2019, he was a member of the Media Council of the NMHH. Since 2016 he is a member of the Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and since 2017 a member of the Legal and Ethics Committee of the Hungarian Paralympic Committee.

Andie Tucher, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism and Director of the Communications Ph. D. Program, Columbia Journalism School

Andie Tucher, a historian and journalist, is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism and the Director of the Communications Ph.D. Program at the Columbia Journalism School. She writes on the evolution of conventions of truth-telling in journalism, photography, personal narrative, and other nonfiction forms. Her book “Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History”, published by Columbia University Press in 2022, won the Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Award, the AEJMC History Division Book Award, the ICA Journalism Studies Division Book Award, and the Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award.

David Pozen, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

David Pozen teaches and writes about constitutional law, information law, and nonprofit law, among other topics. Pozen’s body of work includes dozens of articles, essays, and book chapters, as well as The Constitution of the War on Drugs (Oxford, 2024). Pozen has also edited two volumes for Columbia University Press, on transparency (2018) and free speech (2020), and been a semi-regular contributor to the Balkinization and Lawfare blogs. He has been the keynote speaker at numerous academic conferences, in the United States and abroad, and his scholarship has been discussed in outlets including the New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Harper’s, Politico, American Scholar, and NPR. In 2019, the American Law Institute named Pozen the recipient of its Early Career Scholars Medal, which is awarded every other year to “one or two outstanding early-career law professors whose work is relevant to public policy and has the potential to influence improvements in the law.” In 2017, Pozen became the inaugural visiting scholar at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. From 2010 to 2012, Pozen served as special advisor to Harold Hongju Koh, legal adviser at the U.S. Department of State. Previously, Pozen was a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Merrick Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was a special assistant to Senator Ted Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Artur Pericles Lima Monteiro, Resident Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School

Artur Pericles is a Lecturer in Global Affairs (spring) and the Schmidt Visiting Scholar in the Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power program at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is also a Resident Fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He has written and spoken on freedom of expression, content moderation, and platform governance. He served as a member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council Content Governance Initiative and took part in the revised Santa Clara Principles. He is a country analyst for Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net report. He has also focused on privacy and data protection, which he practiced as an attorney in Brazil. He earned his doctorate in law from the University of São Paulo, with a dissertation on encryption and the right to privacy. He also holds an MSc and an LLB from the University of São Paulo. He has presented his work at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, the Freedom of Expressions Scholars Conference, Columbia’s Knight First Amendment symposium on free speech and misinformation, and the Platform Governance Network Conference, among others. In spring 2024, he will teach “The Global Law and Policy of Artificial Intelligence”, offered for Jackson graduate students and Yale Law School students.

Bernát Török, Director at the Institute of the Information Society, Ludovika University of Public Service (Budapest)

Bernát Török is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, and Director of the Institute of the Information Society at the Ludovika University of Public Service (Budapest). He worked as legal expert at the Hungarian media authority for seven years, then he was chief counsellor at the Constitutional Court of Hungary between 2010 and 2018. In 2016–17, he was visiting scholar at Yale Law School. He earned his PhD in 2018 with a thesis titled To Speak Freely in a Democracy. His research interests include freedom of speech, and fundamental rights in the information society.

Ahran Park, Associate Professor in the School of Media & Communication, Korea University, South Korea

Ahran Park is an Associate Professor in the School of Media & Communication at Korea University in South Korea. Her main research interests are in media law, internet policy, and journalism ethics. Her works have been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law, Southwestern Journal of International Law, and Media & Arts Law Review. She also wrote International Encyclopedia of Media Law: South Korea and contributed to comparative media law books such as Justices and Journalists: The Global Perspective, International Libel and Privacy Handbook, and Carter-Ruck on Libel and Privacy.

Jeremy Kessler, Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

A noted legal historian, Jeremy Kessler writes primarily about First Amendment law, administrative law, and legal theory. His forthcoming book, Conscription and Constitutional Change in Twentieth Century America (Harvard University Press, 2025) explores how the contested development of the military draft transformed the relationship between civil liberties law and the American administrative state. Kessler’s past scholarship has investigated the origins of modern First Amendment law, the legal and political economic foundations of the administrative state, and transatlantic debates about the relationship between rights and governance throughout the 20th century. His writing has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and Texas Law Review, among other publications. Kessler is co-director of Columbia Law School’s Legal History Workshop, and Columbia University’s new Workshop on Knowledge and the State, a project of the Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects. Earlier in his career, Kessler clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. His prior positions include the David Berg Foundation Fellowship at the Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization at NYU School of Law, a graduate fellowship at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and the Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. During his time at Yale Law School, Kessler was a Legal History Fellow and the executive editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.

Charlotte Garden, Julius E. Davis Professor, University of Minnesota School of Law

Charlotte Garden joined the Law School faculty in Fall 2022. She specializes in labor law, employment law, and constitutional law. Her interests include the intersection of workers’ rights and the Constitution, and how law supports (or undermines) worker voice and power. Professor Garden’s scholarship has appeared in several leading law reviews, including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and the William & Mary Law Review. Her work for generalist audiences appears in outlets such as SCOTUSBlog and OnLabor. In 2019, Cambridge University Press published her edited volume, The Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law For the Twenty-First Century (co-edited with Rick Bales). She is a co-author of two leading work law casebooks: Modern Labor Law in the Private and Public Sectors, with Joe Slater, Anne Marie Lofaso, Richard F. Griffin, Jr., and Seth Harris; and Employment Law Cases and Materials, with Mark Rothstein, Lance Liebman, Kimberly Yuracko, and Susan Cancelosi. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, Professor Garden was a professor at Seattle University School of Law where she served as Co-Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development. In 2016 she was a visiting professor at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Garden clerked for Judge Thomas L. Ambro of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She received her J.D. from NYU School of Law (2003) and her B.A. from McGill University (2000).

Anya Schiffrin, Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization, School of International and Public Affairs,  Columbia University

Anya Schiffrin is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a senior lecturer who teaches on global media, innovation and human rights.  She writes on journalism and development, investigative reporting in the global south and has published extensively over the last decade on the media in Africa. More recently she has become focused on solutions to the problem of online disinformation, earning her PhD (with honors) on the topic from the University of Navarra.  She is the editor of Women in the Digital World, (Routledge, April 2023) Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World (New Press, 2014) and African Muckraking: 75 years of Investigative journalism from Africa (Jakana 2017) She is the editor of Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms and Governments Control the News (Columbia University Press 2021.) Dr. Schiffrin’s work with economist Haaris Mateen on the valuation of news has been cited in the Atlantic, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post and many other publications. She is a leading thinker and commentator on AI and publishing, media sustainability as well as mis/disinformation and media impact.

Katie Fallow, Senior Counsel, Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University

Katie Fallow is senior counsel at the Knight First Amendment Institute, where she focuses on threats to free speech and a free press in the digital age, particularly in the area of social media. Fallow spearheads the Institute’s litigation concerning the government’s use of social media. She was one of the lead lawyers in the Institute’s ground-breaking case challenging President Trump’s blocking of people from his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account. Fallow also won the first federal appellate case holding that public officials who use social media accounts for official purposes have created a public forum and may not block people from those virtual forums based on viewpoint. Fallow is also litigating the Institute’s challenges to regulations requiring individuals to provide their social media handles to the government for collection and surveillance. Fallow regularly appears in the media to discuss the Institute’s litigation docket and comment on government regulation of public forums and digital spaces. Before joining the Knight Institute, Fallow was a litigation partner at Jenner & Block, LLP in Washington, D.C., where she represented video game makers in a long line of challenges to government restrictions on video games, culminating in the Supreme Court’s landmark case of EMA v. Brown, holding that violent video games are protected speech. She also defended The Huffington Post and other news outlets against defamation claims and filed numerous merits and amicus briefs in the Supreme Court on free speech issues, including sexually explicit speech, offensive speech, fighting words, and libel. After leaving Jenner & Block, Fallow was deputy director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School. After law school, she clerked for Judge Robert E. Keeton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and Judge Rosemary Barkett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Costanza Sciubba Caniglia, Anti-Disinformation Strategy Lead at Wikimedia Foundation

Costanza Sciubba Caniglia is the Anti-Disinformation Lead at the Wikimedia Foundation, where she is responsible for coordinating across the Foundation on disinformation, liaising with the communities and affiliates, and maintaining open lines of communication with governments, civil society organizations, and academia, working with these partners to advocate for effective policy responses to disinformation that support and protect free knowledge. She previously worked in journalism and public information at the United Nations in New York, including as a spokesperson for Italy on the U.N. Security Council. She is affiliated with the Shorenstein Center at Harvard and is an editor and co-founder of the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. She regularly writes and speaks about disinformation and digital governance. She holds a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, an B.A. and an M.A. in philosophy and theoretical-critical studies from the University La Sapienza of Rome, and a Master in International Relations from the Italian Society for International Organizations (SIOI).

Related publications of the authors

The Pursuit of Truth: Fixes for the Spread of Online Mis/Disinformation, by Anya Schiffrin

“Truth Drives Out Lies” and Other Misinformation, by Dave Pozen

Official Censorship Should Have No Place in the Digital Public Square, by Jameel Jaffer & Katie Fallow

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