SPONSORS FREE SPEECH IN THE 21ST CENTURY JULY 3-4 / VIRTUAL CONFERENCE THE OVERVIEW Free speech is one of the essential democratic rights, and one of the most controversial. Whether it is Donald Trump’s Twitter account, Larry Flynt’s pornographic magazine, protests, the financing of an election campaign, or hate speech directed at migrants or minorities, free speech incidents attract intense attention and regularly provoke debate. The limits to our freedom of expression are changing. The forthcoming Free Speech in the 21st Century global conference will feature unique exploration into crucial freedom of speech is- sues. It will gather together the biggest names in constitutional law to debate the future of the human right that is so important to democratic society. You are invited to attend and participate. Mark Tushnet of Harvard, Jacob Rowbottom of Oxford, and David Erdos of Cambridge, among others, will evaluate how the matter of free speech is currently understood, and its future. András Sajó, a member of Facebook’s Oversight Board and a former European Court of Human Rights vice-president, will elaborate on the changing limits of freedom of expression. Jurij To- plak of Alma Mater Europaea and a Visiting Professor at Fordham Law will moderate the event. The conference is organized by Alma Mater Europaea international university and the IACL, the leading global association of constitutional scholars. It will be the inaugural meeting of the IACL’s Freedom of Speech research group. There is no registration fee. You are welcome to register here (http://iaclfreespeech.almamater.eu) and to ask your questions or participate in discussions at one of the most exciting freedom of expression events. THE EVENT WILL BE HELD VIA THROUGH THE LINK: https://bit.ly/IACLFreeSpeech (free registration required) THE MODERATOR Jurij Toplak Jurij Toplak is a University Professor of law at Alma Mater Europaea interna- tional university and the University of Maribor, Slovenia, and a Visiting Pro- fessor at Fordham University School of Law, New York. He gave guest lectures or researched at Harvard, Georgetown, Oxford, Central European University, and was a Fulbright Scholar at UCLA Law School (2003-04). His expert opin- ion appeared in The Guardian and The Boston Globe. Jurij gave expert advice to governments and international organizations in the United States, Cana- da, Finland, France, Belgium, Uganda, Latvia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Monaco, and Malta. His book Political Finance and Corruption in Eastern Europe (co-edited with Daniel Smilov) was extensively cited. Jurij has served as a co-convenor of the IACL Free Speech research group since 2018. 2 THE 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. András Sajó CEU, the Facebook Oversight Board András Sajó is the founding dean of Legal Studies at the Central Europe- an University, a member of the Facebook’s Oversight Board, and former judge and vice-president of the European Court of Human Rights. He is widely considered as one of the Europe’s leading constitutional and human rights scholars. Sajó taught extensively in the US (Harvard, NYU, University of Chicago, Cardozo Law School, Brigham Young). In Hungary, he founded the League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, served as a legal counsel for the first freely elected President. He participated as expert in constitution-drafting in four countries. 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. Olivier Sylvain Fordham University Olivier Sylvain is a Professor of Law at Fordham University. His scholar- ship examines communications law, artificial intelligence in communi- cations technologies, social media liability under the civil rights laws, broadband internet governance, and data protection. He is a principal investigator in an interdisciplinary National Science Foundation grant project that is prototyping a community-administered computing net- work in West Harlem. Before entering academia, Olivier was a Karpatkin Fellow in the National Legal Office of the ACLU in New York City and a litigation associate at Jenner & Block, LLC. 3 David Erdos University of Cambridge David Erdos is University Senior Lecturer in Law and the Open Society and Deputy Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) in the Faculty of Law and also WYNG Fellow in Law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. David’s current research explores the na- ture of Data Protection especially as it intersects with the right to privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of information and freedom of research. In addition, David continues to have a research interest in bill of rights and related constitutional developments, especially in the UK and other ‘Westminster’ democracies. Jacob Rowbottom University of Oxford Jacob Rowbottom is a Fellow of University College, Oxford, and an Asso- ciate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He was previously a University Lecturer in Law and Fellow of King’s College at the University of Cambridge. He is a qualified barrister and previously worked on the staff of an election campaign for the US Senate. His research inter- ests include media law, freedom of expression and the legal regulation of the democratic process. He is the author of Democracy Distorted (2010) and writes on a range of topics including the funding of political parties, media regulation, speech on the internet, election campaigns and obscenity laws. 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. Mark Rush Washington and Lee Univerisity Mark Rush is the Waxberg Professor of Politics and Law and Director of the Center for International Education. He has written extensively on U.S. pol- itics, Constitutional Law in the United States and Canada, elections and democracy around the world, and global affairs. His writings have been published in numerous scholarly journals and in media outlets such as The Hill, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Richmond Times and The Roanoke Times and NPR. From 2010-2013, he served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the American Univer- sity of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. 4 Itsuko Yamaguchi University of Tokyo Itsuko Yamaguchi is Professor of Information Law and Policy, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Infor- mation Studies. She conducted visiting research at Harvard Law School and at Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and was later a visiting profes- sor at Duke University School of Law. She has been a principle investigator of the project »Comparative Study of Core Principles and Re-balance relating to Information Law in the Age of the Next Generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) in Japan, the United States, and Europe«. Pierre de Vos University of Cape Town Pierre de Vos is the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Gover- nance and teaches in the area of Constitutional Law at University of Cape Town. He taught at the University of Western Cape from 1993 to June 2009 and held a Professorship at that institution from 2001. Prof de Vos is the chairperson of the Board of the Aids Legal Network and is a board member of Triangle Project. He writes a Blog on social and political issues from a constitutional law perspective, which is widely read and quoted. Corado Carruso University of Bologna Corado Carruso is an Associate professor of Constitutional Law at the Uni- versity of Bologna. From 2017, Corrado Caruso is law clerk at the Italian Constitutional Court, Justice Prof. Augusto Barbera. He is also a member of Member of editorial boards of several journals. His research focuses on fundamental rights - mainly on freedom of speech-, sources of law, the European federalizing process, the judicial review