Friday, April 29
(contact heather.branch@yale.edu for zoom link)
5:00 – 6:00 PM: SYMPOSIUM – JOURNAL OF FREE SPEECH LAW – Revisiting Defamation, Incitement, and Hate Speech in the era of Social Media
• Jacob Mchangama & Natalie Alkiviadou, South Africa the Model? A Comparative Analysis of Hate Speech Jurisprudence of South Africa and the European Court of Human Rights
• David McGowan, A Bipartisan Case Against New York Times v. Sullivan
• Eugene Volokh, Overbroad Injunctions Against Speech (Especially in Libel and Harassment Cases)
• Jane Bambauer, Reckless Associations
Saturday, April 30
11:00 – 11:10 AM: INTRODUCTION – Floyd Abrams
11:10 – 11:15 AM: WELCOME
11:15 – 12:30 PM: PLENARY 1 – REIMAGINING THE LAW OF DEFAMATION
Lyrissa Lidsky: Restating Defamation Law for the Twenty-First Century
Cortelyou Kenney: Defamation 2.0
Yonathan A. Arbel: A Status Theory of Defamation Law
Moderator: Adam Posluns
12:40 – 1:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSION 1
Room 1 – Sari Mazzurco: The Law of Social Roles for the Platform Internet
Discussant: Thomas Kadri
Room 2 – Alan K. Chen: Investigative Deceptions Across Social Context
Discussant: Sonja R. West
Room 3 – Helen Norton: Securities Law and the First Amendment
Discussant: Robert Post
1:40 – 2:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSION 2
Room 1 – Karman Lucero: Big Censorship
Discussant: Agustina Ordonez
Room 2 – Akriti Gaur: Encrypted Messaging Applications as Non-Traditional Social Media Platforms
Discussant: Chinmayi Arun
Room 3 – Amanda Shanor and Sarah E. Light: Greenwashing and the First Amendment
Discussant: Francesca Procaccini
2:40 – 4:10 PM: PLENARY 2 – PLATFORM REGULATION I: INFRASTRUCTURE
Brett Frischmann and Susan Benesch: Friction-By-Design Regulation as Twenty-First Century TPM
Christoph Busch: Regulating the Expanding Content Moderation Universe: A European Perspective on Infrastructure Moderation
Elettra Bietti: Toward an Internet of Utilities: Addressing Disinformation, Surveillance and Concentration
Niva Elkin-Koren and Maayan Perel: Speech Governance by AI and How to Fix It
Moderator: Amy Kapczynski
4:20 – 5:10 PM: BREAKOUT SESSION 3
Room 1 – Shaakirah R. Sanders: Gag Free Nation
Discussant: RonNell Andersen Jones
Room 2 – Christina Koningisor: Police Secrecy Exceptionalism
Discussant: Albert Fox Cahn
Room 3 – Ari Ezra Waldman: Manufactured Uncertainty in Constitutional Law
Discussant: Mehtab Khan
Sunday, May 1
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: PLENARY 3 – MISINFORMATION
Catherine J.Ross: Candidates, The Big Lie, and the First Amendment: A Reform Proposal
Claudia Haupt and Wendy E. Parmet: Lethal Lies: Government Speech, Distorted Science and the First Amendment
Gilad Abiri and Johannes Buchheim: Beyond True and False: Fake News and the Digital Epistemic Divide
Moderator: Morgan Weiland
12:40 – 1:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSION 4
Room 1 – Ge Chen: The Global Spill-over Effect of China's Regulation of Political Speech
Discussant: Bulelani Jili
Room 2 – Mason Marks: A First Amendment Right to Access Subconscious and Subperceptual Information
Discussant: James Grimmelmann
Room 3 – Francisco de Abreu Duarte and Giovanni de Gregorio: Importing America-Exporting Europe: A Cross-Atlantic Approach to Online Content Moderation
Discussant: Hannah Van Dijcke
1:40 – 2:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSION 5
Room 1 – Odile Ammann: Lobbying and Free Speech in the United States and in Europe: A European Paradox?
Discussant: Alexander Tsesis
Room 2 – Caroline Mala Corbin: The Unbearable Fragility of Critical Race Theory Bans
Discussant: Brenda Dvoskin
Room 3 – Salome Viljoen: (Civil) Libertarianism and the Legal Constitution of Social Data
Discussant: Jack Balkin
2:40 – 3:30 PM: BREAKOUT SESSION 6
Room 1 – Heidi Kitrosser: Protecting Public Knowledge Producers
Discussant: Erin Carroll
Room 2 – Ira Rubinstein and Tomer Kenneth: Online Public Health Misinformation
Discussant: Ari Ezra Waldman
Room 3 – Danielle Citron, Jon Penney, and Alexis Shore: How Sexual Privacy Measures Impact Intimate Expression
Discussant: Mary Anne Franks
3:30 – 5:10 PM: PLENARY 4 – PLATFORM REGULATION II: CONTENT MODERATION
Alan Z. Rozenshtein: Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation in Distributed Social Media
Ashutosh Bhagwat: The New Gatekeepers
Martin J. Riedl: How Cultural Democracy Informs Content Moderation: Comparing Germany and the United States
Pauline Trouillard: Platforms Are Not Speakers
Moderator: Kate Klonick