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FREE SPEECH IN THE 21ST CENTURY

JULY 3-4 / VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mark Tushnet Harvard Law School

Mark Tushnet is a leading scholar of constitutional law and legal history,
and currently the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard
Law School. His research includes studies examining (skeptically) the
practice of judicial review in the United States and around the world. He
also writes in the area of legal and particularly constitutional history,
with works on the development of civil rights law in the United States
and (currently) a long-term project on the history of the Supreme Court
in the 1930s.

Adrienne Stone IACL President

Adrienne Stone is the president of the IACL and holds a Chair at Mel-
bourne Law School where she is also a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian
Laureate Fellow, a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director
of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. She researches in
the areas of constitutional law and constitutional theory with particu-
lar attention to freedom of expression. Her Laureate Program on Com-
parative Constitutional Law assembles a research team to investigate
challenges to liberal democratic constitutionalism. She has published
widely in international and Australian journals.

András Sajó CEU, the Facebook Oversight Board

András Sajó is a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Stras-
bourg. He is a University Professor at CEU and Global Visiting Professor
of Law at New York University Law School. He was the founding dean
of Legal Studies at CEU. In addition to his stature as a prominent consti-
tutionalist, he is also a distinguished scholar in the human rights field,
including media regulations and has been extensively involved in legal
drafting throughout Eastern Europe. Professor Sajó served also as Coun-
sel to the President of the Republic of Hungary and chaired the Media
Codification Committee of the Hungarian Government.

Janny Leung University of Hong Kong

Janny Leung is Professor of English, Programme Director of Law and Liter-
ary Studies, and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts. Her research interest
lies in the emergent interdisciplinary area of language and law. She has
written about challenges, ideologies, paradoxes, multilingual legal prac-
tice, legal interpretation, unrepresented litigation, courtroom discourse,
legal translation, and representations of law in the media. Her latest gov-
ernment-funded project deals with the evolution of law in the modern
communication environment. In 2017, she was elected to the Executive
Committee of the International Association of Forensic Linguists.

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PROGRAMME
FRIDAY, JULY 3
8am London, 9am CET, 5pm Tokyo, 6pm Sydney
PANEL: WHEN SPEECH IS A CRIME
Chair: Jimmy Chia Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Janny Leung, University of Hong Kong: Entextualization and Criminality in Digital Speech (live)
Junko Kotani, Shizuoka University: Regulating Hate Speech in “Divided Society”: An Analysis on the
Call for Hate Speech Regulation in Japan (live or prerecorded)
Pierre DeVos, University of Cape Town: Hate Speech in a Divided Society: the “Sexual Orientation” Hate Speech (live)
Discussion

9:10am London, 10:10 CET, 6:10pm Tokyo, 7:10pm Sydney

PANEL: FREE SPEECH AND COVID-19
Chair: Janny Leung, University of Hong Kong
Elisa Bertolini, Bocconi University Milano: Freedom of expression and coronavirus denial (live)
Itsuko Yamaguchi, University of Tokyo: Encoding Fairness and Checking Value in Digital Free Speech Theory:
Democratizing Global Data Governance amid the COVID-19 Crisis (live)
Discussion

9:50am London, 10:50 CET, 6:50pm Tokyo, 7:50pm Sydney

PANEL: FREE SPEECH AND COVID-19
Chair: Janny Leung, University of Hong Kong
German Teruel, University of Murcia: The crime of historical denialism as a limit to the freedom of expression:
a European glance (live)
Corrado Caruso, University of Bologna: De-humanizing Freedom of Speech: Fake News in the Algorithmic Society (live)
Discussion

10:40am London, 11:40 CET, 7:40pm Tokyo, 8:40pm Sydney

PANEL: THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
Chair: Elisa Bertolini, Bocconi University Milano
Richard Calland, University of Cape Town: Transparency and International Development Finance: Trends & Pri-
orities in Information Disclosure Regimes at MDBs and IFIs (live)
Michael Riegner, Humboldt University Berlin (live)
Marina Caporale, University of Bologna: Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and Administrative
Transparency in Italy (live)
Discussion

1pm London, 2pm CET, 8am EST

OPENING SESSION
Adrienne Stone, the President of the IACL: A Welcome Address (prerecorded)
Rajko Knez, the President of the Constitutional Court of Slovenia: A Welcome Address (prerecorded)
András Sajó, the founding dean of the CEU Legal Studies, the Facebook Oversight Board, former ECHR judge: The
Paradigm Change in Free Speech (live)

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2pm London, 3pm CET, 9am EST
ROUNDTABLE: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH (LIVE)
Jacob Rowbottom, Oxford University
Olivier Sylvain, Fordham University

3pm London, 4pm CET, 10am EST

KEYNOTE SPEECH
Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School: Free Speech and the Risk of Harm: How New Are Today’s Challenges? (live)
Q&A

4pm London, 45pm CET, 11am EST

PANEL: THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH
Chair: Jurij Toplak, Alma Mater Europaea
Gavin Phillipson, Bristol University: Regulating the New Public Sphere: or not? European and US approaches
compared (live)
Neil Richards, Washington University in St. Louis; The Future First Amendment (live)
RonNell Andersen Jones, University of Utah College of Law, and Sonja R. West, University of Georgia School of
Law: The United States Supreme Court and The Press: An Empirical Study (live)
Discussion

5:30pm London, 6:30pm CET, 12:30pm EST

PANEL: FREE SPEECH AND THE ONLINE WORLD
Chair: Klemen Jaklič, Constitutional Court of Slovenia
Mark Rush, Washington & Lee University: The Looming Paradigm Crisis in Free Speech Law: The Impact of Tech-
nology and Social Media (live)
David Schultz, Hamline University: Free Speech and the Metaphor of the Marketplace of Ideas in the 21st Century (live)
Discussion

SATURDAY JULY 4
8am London, 9am CET, 5pm Tokyo, 6pm Sydney
PANEL: DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL ERA
Chair: Elisa Bertolini, Bocconi University Milano
David Erdos, Cambridge University: The General Data Protection Regulation and the New Online Publication
Aysen Çilenti Konuralp, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law: Conflict of Free Speech and Right to be Forgotten
(prerecorded)
Daniela Messina, University of Naples “Parthenope”: Memory and Protection of Personal Identity in the Artifi-
cial Intelligence Era (prerecorded)
Orhan Emre Konuralp, Bilkent University, Turkey: Is Turkish Procedural Law Against Technology? (prerecorded)
Alberto Nicotina, University of Antwerp: Freedom of speech and public participation in decisionmaking: the
“debat public” paradigm in France and Italy (prerecorded)
Discussion

9am London, 10am CET, 3pm Bangkok

PANEL: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AROUND THE WORLD
Chair: Elisa Bertolini, Bocconi University Milano
Rawin Leelapatana, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand: Freedom of Expression in the State of Exception: The
Case of Thailand’s Partisan Politics (live)
Nge Nge Aung, University of Debrecen: One of the Guarantees Guaranteed by the Constitution: Freedom of
Speech in Hungary (live)
Discussion

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10am London, 11am CET, 7pm Tokyo, 8pm Sydney
PANEL:
Chair:
Penelope Petsini & Dimitris Christopoulos, Panteion University: Dixit quod nunquam vidit hereticos: The Greek
paradigm of Censorship (live)
Kinga Kálmán & Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Restricted free speech of municipal
employees: could it be constitutional? (live)
Simon Drugda, University of Copenhagen: __ (live or prerecorded)
Pedro José Martínez Esponda, The Graduate Institute Geneva: No, I’m right! A Comparative Analysis of Narra-
tive-Building in the Relationship between Freedom of Expression and Religious Freedom (live)
Discussion

3pm London, 4pm CET, 10am EST

PANEL: ONLINE SPEECH, HATE SPEECH AND THE SATIRE
Chair: Miha Šepec, University of Maribor
Marcin Górski, University of Lodz: The truth is out there. Internet profiling as a challenge to a passive aspect of
freedom of expression (live)
Oreste Pollicino, Bocconi University Milano: Metaphors, judicial frames and fundamental rights in cyberspace
(live)
Max Steuer, Social Scientific Expertise in Slovak Courts: The Struggle Against ‘Hate Speech’ by the Far Right (live)
Ivana Marković, University of Belgrade: The Legal Fragility of Satire (prerecorded)
Discussion

4:15pm London, 5:15pm CET, 11:15a, EST, 9:15am Saskatchewan

PANEL: FREE SPEECH IN UNIVERSITY
Chair: Ivana Markovic, University of Belgrade
Adja Mbengue, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University: Freedom of Speech in French University (live)
Dwight Newman, University of Saskatchewan: Campus Free Speech (live)
Tamás Pongó, University of Szeged: Is it (un)constitutional? – What are the limits of students’ free speech when
it comes to (cyber)bullying? (live)
Discussion

5:15pm London, 6:15pm CET, 12:15 pm EST

CLOSING OF THE “FREE SPEECH IN THE 21ST CENTURY” CONFERENCE