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)
- Pierre DeVos, University of Cape Town: Hate Speech in a Divided Society: the “Sexual Orientation” Hate Speech (live)
- Djordje Gardašević, University of Zagreb: Use of Historical Symbols and Hate Speech in Croatia (live)
- Discussion
8am London, 9am CET, 5pm Tokyo, 6pm Sydney
9am London, 10am CET, 5pm Tokyo, 6pm Sydney
PANEL: FREE SPEECH AND COVID-19
Chair: Jernej Letnar Černič, The New University Ljubljana
- 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
9am London, 10am CET, 5pm Tokyo, 6pm Sydney
10am London, 11am CET, 6pm Tokyo, 7pm Sydney
PANEL: The Changing Limits of the Freedom of Expression
Chair: Janny Leung, University of Hong Kong
- David Erdos, Cambridge University: The General Data Protection Regulation and the New Online Publication (live)
- German Teruel, University of Murcia: The crime of historical denialism as a limit to the freedom of expression: a European glance (live)
- Klemen Jaklic, Constitutional Court of Slovenia: The Free Formation of Political Will and the Responsibikity of Judiciary in the Cyber Age (live)
- Corrado Caruso, University of Bologna: De-humanizing Freedom of Speech: Fake News in the Algorithmic Society (live)
- Discussion
10am London, 11am CET, 6pm Tokyo, 7pm Sydney
11:30am London, 12:30 CET, 7:30pm Tokyo, 8:30pm 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 & Priorities 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
11:30am London, 12:30 CET, 7:30pm Tokyo, 8:30pm Sydney
Break: 12:30 – 1pm London
1:30pm-2pm CET, 8:30pm-9pm Tokyo, 9:30pm-10pm Sydney
1pm London, 2pm CET, 8am EST
Opening Session and the Opening Speech
- 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)
- The Opening Speech: András Sajó, the founding dean of the CEU Legal Studies, the Facebook Oversight Board, former ECHR judge: The Paradigm Change in Free Speech (live)
- Michael Pinto-Duschinsky: Free Speech and Elections in the 21st Century (live)
- Discussion
1pm London, 2pm CET, 8am EST
2:15pm London, 3:15pm CET, 9:15am EST
ROUNDTABLE: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH (LIVE)
- Jacob Rowbottom, Oxford University
- Olivier Sylvain, Fordham University
- Boštjan M. Zupančič, former ECHR judge
2:15pm London, 3:15pm CET, 9:15am EST
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
3pm London, 4pm CET, 10am EST
3:45pm London, 4:45pm CET, 10:45 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
3:45pm London, 4:45pm CET, 10:45 EST
5pm London, 6pm CET, Noon 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 Technology and Social Media (live)
- David Schultz, Hamline University: Free Speech and the Metaphor of the Marketplace of Ideas in the 21st Century (live)
- Dwight Newman, University of Saskatchewan: Campus Free Speech (live)
- Discussion
5pm London, 6pm CET, Noon EST
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
- 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 Artificial Intelligence Era (prerecorded)
- Orhan Emre Konuralp, Bilkent University, Turkey: Is Turkish Procedural Law Against Technology? (live)
- Discussion
9am London, 10am CET, 3pm Bangkok
PANEL: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AROUND THE WORLD
Chair: Elisa Bertolini, Bocconi University Milano
- Max Steuer, Social Scientific Expertise in Slovak Courts: The Struggle Against ‘Hate Speech’ by the Far Right (prerecorded)
- Alberto Nicotina, University of Antwerp: Freedom of speech and public participation in decision-making: the “debat public” paradigm in France and Italy (prerecorded)
- 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
9:45am London, 10:45am CET, 5:45pm Tokyo, 6:45pm
PANEL: Freedom of Expression around the World
Chair: Oreste Pollicino, Bocconi University Milano
- 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)
- Pedro José Martínez Esponda, The Graduate Institute Geneva: No, I’m right! A Comparative Analysis of Narrative-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)
- Ivana Marković, University of Belgrade: The Legal Fragility of Satire (live)
- Discussion
4pm London, 5pm CET, 11am EST
PANEL: Free Speech and the university
Chair: Ivana Markovic, University of Belgrade
- Adja Mbengue, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University: Freedom of Speech in French University (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
4:45pm London, 5:45pm CET, 11:45 am EST
CLOSING OF THE “FREE SPEECH IN THE 21ST CENTURY” CONFERENCE
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)
- Pierre DeVos, University of Cape Town: Hate Speech in a Divided Society: the “Sexual Orientation” Hate Speech (live)
- Djordje Gardašević, University of Zagreb: Use of Historical Symbols and Hate Speech in Croatia (live)
- Discussion
9am London, 10am CET, 5pm Tokyo, 6pm Sydney
PANEL: FREE SPEECH AND COVID-19
Chair: Jernej Letnar Černič, The New University Ljubljana
- 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
10am London, 11am CET, 6pm Tokyo, 7pm Sydney
PANEL: The Changing Limits of the Freedom of Expression
Chair: Janny Leung, University of Hong Kong
- David Erdos, Cambridge University: The General Data Protection Regulation and the New Online Publication (live)
- German Teruel, University of Murcia: The crime of historical denialism as a limit to the freedom of expression: a European glance (live)
- Klemen Jaklic, Constitutional Court of Slovenia: The Free Formation of Political Will and the Responsibikity of Judiciary in the Cyber Age (live)
- Corrado Caruso, University of Bologna: De-humanizing Freedom of Speech: Fake News in the Algorithmic Society (live)
- Discussion
11:30am London, 12:30 CET, 7:30pm Tokyo, 8:30pm 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 & Priorities 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
Break: 12:30 – 1pm London
1:30pm-2pm CET, 8:30pm-9pm Tokyo, 9:30pm-10pm Sydney
1pm London, 2pm CET, 8am EST
Opening Session and the Opening Speech
- 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)
- The Opening Speech: András Sajó, the founding dean of the CEU Legal Studies, the Facebook Oversight Board, former ECHR judge: The Paradigm Change in Free Speech (live)
- Michael Pinto-Duschinsky: Free Speech and Elections in the 21st Century (live)
- Discussion
2:15pm London, 3:15pm CET, 9:15am EST
ROUNDTABLE: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH (LIVE)
- Jacob Rowbottom, Oxford University
- Olivier Sylvain, Fordham University
- Boštjan M. Zupančič, former ECHR judge
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
3:45pm London, 4:45pm CET, 10:45 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
5pm London, 6pm CET, Noon 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 Technology and Social Media (live)
- David Schultz, Hamline University: Free Speech and the Metaphor of the Marketplace of Ideas in the 21st Century (live)
- Dwight Newman, University of Saskatchewan: Campus Free Speech (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
- 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 Artificial Intelligence Era (prerecorded)
- Orhan Emre Konuralp, Bilkent University, Turkey: Is Turkish Procedural Law Against Technology? (live)
- Discussion
9am London, 10am CET, 3pm Bangkok
PANEL: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AROUND THE WORLD
Chair: Elisa Bertolini, Bocconi University Milano
- Max Steuer, Social Scientific Expertise in Slovak Courts: The Struggle Against ‘Hate Speech’ by the Far Right (prerecorded)
- Alberto Nicotina, University of Antwerp: Freedom of speech and public participation in decision-making: the “debat public” paradigm in France and Italy (prerecorded)
- 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
9:45am London, 10:45am CET, 5:45pm Tokyo, 6:45pm
PANEL: Freedom of Expression around the World
Chair: Oreste Pollicino, Bocconi University Milano
- 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)
- Pedro José Martínez Esponda, The Graduate Institute Geneva: No, I’m right! A Comparative Analysis of Narrative-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)
- Ivana Marković, University of Belgrade: The Legal Fragility of Satire (live)
- Discussion
4pm London, 5pm CET, 11am EST
PANEL: Free Speech and the university
Chair: Ivana Markovic, University of Belgrade
- Adja Mbengue, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University: Freedom of Speech in French University (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
4:45pm London, 5:45pm CET, 11:45 am EST