Call for Papers: UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day 2023 Academic Conference
The Role of Academia in Protecting Freedom of Expression as a Driver for Other Human Rights Location: MLK Conference Room 527, located in Riverside Church,…
Brazil: Litigating on the Free Flow of Information
It is important for you to know that the most notorious and emblematic case of Judicial censorship (still active!) in Brazil envolves the newspaper I…
Applying International Human Rights Law for Use by Facebook
Published in Yale Journal on Regulation, September 14, 2020 Abstract: In recent years, social media platforms have been beset with hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, incitement…
New report from Justitia: Digital freedom of expression and social media
New report from Justitia: Digital freedom of expression and social media Every year, over 500,000 comments are deleted from five Danish Facebook pages – do…
U.S. First Amendment: Opportunities and Challenges
The First Amendment (and the rest of the Bill of Rights) was ratified in 1791, but largely ignored by the U.S. Supreme Court for 128…
Pre-trial detention for terrorist charges in Turkey: the case against Cumhuriyet’s journalist Ahmet Şık
Given the daily arrests in Turkey, and the increasing purges against critics and opponents for alleged anti-terrorism offences, it is worth considering the judicial proceedings…
In RE: National Security Letters, 11-cv-02173-SI (2016)
H.R. Dipendra: Trends in Freedom of Expression in 2015 in Malaysia and Singapore
Following are excerpts from H.R. Dipendra’s presentation for the 2016 Justice for Free Expression Conference discussing trends in freedom of expression in Malaysia and Singapore.…
Hate speech: The Dark Twin of Free Speech
On October 20 2014, an unemployed fifty-seven year old white Norwegian man entered a supermarket in an Eastern suburb of the Norwegian capital of Oslo.…