The Facebook Oversight Board’s Human Rights Future
Published in Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2022-47 Abstract: Responses to the new Oversight Board created by Facebook (now Meta)…
From Constitutional Freedoms to the Power of the Platforms: Protecting Fundamental Rights Online in the Algorithmic Society
This paper was originally published by the European journal of legal studies, 2019, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 65-103. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3365106 Abstract The…
CGFoE Celebrates 10th Anniversary and Awards 2024 Prizes
On April 25, 2024, dozens of global free speech advocates joined us for the all-day event at the Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York City,…
Bringing Down an Uprising: Egypt’s Stillborn Revolution
Texas A&M University School of Law August 14, 2014 30 Conn. J. Int’l L. 1 (2014) Abstract: Despite warnings that bleak socio-economic conditions were pushing…
The Digital Berlin Wall: How Germany (Accidentally) Created a Prototype for Global Online Censorship
Global Internet freedom is in decline. Authoritarian states manipulate the Internet to serve their own illiberal ends. But liberal democracies have also limited Internet freedom to…
Are Courts Re-inventing Internet Regulation?
Discussion Paper May 2015 The debate on Internet governance, and freedom of expression on-line in particular, has largely focused on the place of Internet …
LEXOTA—A New Tool to Track Government Responses to Online Disinformation Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Global Partners Digital (GPD), the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria (CHR), Article 19 West Africa, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy…
A Not So Sweet Ending: Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Battle for Freedom of Expression
On June 4, 2018, former United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 7-2 opinion in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission shocked the human…
High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom submits amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in ‘El Universo’ criminal defamation case
The High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom submitted an amicus curiae petition to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Case…