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Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference 10 (2022)

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