The 2018 Global Freedom of Expression Prize Nominations Are Open!
NOMINATIONS FORM IN ENGLISH FORMULARIO DE NOMINACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL The Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Prizes celebrate judicial decisions and legal services around the world…
Anti-SLAPP: Professor goes free after vexatious and frivolous suit
This blog was originally published by Inforrm’s Blog and is reproduced with permission and thanks. It is rare in Belgium for people who take part in the…
CGFoE Files Amicus Curiae Brief in a Case on Investigative Journalism and the Protection of Sources in Peru
Columbia GFoE filed an amicus curiae brief to uphold international standards on freedom of expression and protect investigative journalism in Peru in a case involving…
ApTI: Legislative and Jurisprudential Guidelines for Internet Freedom
Introduction The Internet has significantly changed our lives in the past years in many areas, including the way we access and publish information. But most…
Revisiting Section 66A: An Afterword To A Concluded Tale
On 24th March, 2015, the Supreme Court of India struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 as unconstitutional, in Shreya Singhal v.…
Columbia University Launches Online Global Database of Case Law on Freedom of Expression
New York, June 18, 2015—Columbia University has launched an online global database of freedom of expression case law and court rulings. The novel platform developed…
Unity, honesty, dialogue, and compassion can overcome violent extremism
Dear friends and colleagues, The horrific events that occurred this past weekend underscore the importance, urgency, and necessity to intensify efforts to respond to and…
Are Courts re-inventing Internet Regulation?
Introduction The debate on Internet governance, and freedom of expression on-line in particular, has largely focused on the place of Internet technology itself in the…
Military Electoral Authoritarianism in Egypt
Texas A&M University School of Law July 18, 2016 Forthcoming, Elections Law Journal (Spring 2017) Abstract: Authoritarian regimes hold elections not to democratize, but to…