Speakers

Speakers

William D. Araiza

He is the Stanley A. August Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Professor Araiza’s teaching and scholarly interests focus on administrative and constitutional law. He is widely published in these areas, having written casebooks on the First Amendment and Constitutional Law. His most recent articles have appeared in the NYU Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional LawConstitutional Commentary, and the Boston University Law Review. His book, Enforcing the Equal Protection Clause, was published by NYU Press in 2015. His most recent book, Animus: A Short Introduction to Bias in the Law, was published by NYU Press in 2017. 

After law school, Professor Araiza clerked for Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining the faculty at Brooklyn Law School, Professor Araiza served as the Associate Dean for Faculty and the Rev. Richard A. Vachon, S.J. Fellow and Professor of Law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles.  

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Helen Norton

Rothgerber Chair in Constitutional Law

University of Colorado School of Law

Professor Norton’s scholarly and teaching interests include constitutional law (especially free speech and equality) and civil rights law. Before entering academia, Professor Norton served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as Director of Legal and Public Policy at the National Partnership for Women & Families. She served as leader of President-elect Obama’s transition team charged with reviewing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and is frequently invited to testify before Congress and federal agencies on civil rights law and policy issues. She has been honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award on multiple occasions and was appointed a University of Colorado Presidential Teaching Scholar in 2014. She holds a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where she served as Associate Editor of the California Law Review, and a B.A. from Stanford University, where she graduated with distinction. Cambridge University Press recently published her book, The Government’s Speech and the Constitution, and her work has also been published in the Duke Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, the Stanford Law Review Online, and the Supreme Court Review, among other fine journals. 

Filimon Peonidis

He is professor of moral and political philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. A graduate of the same university, he holds an M. Sc. from the LSE and a doctorate from the University of Crete. He had visiting appointments at various universities in London, Toronto, Vancouver, Melbourne, Antwerp and Hamburg. His is the author of Morality and Lying (1994), John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism (2002), Autonomy and Sympathy: A Post-Kantian Moral Image (2005), In Defense of the Right: Essays in Practical Philosophy (2007), Democracy as Popular Sovereignty (2013, enlarged Greek edition 2018), Elements of Critical Argumentation (2014), (with N. Giannakopoulos) Athenian Demagogues: Debunking an Antidemocratic Stereotype (2018) and  Prolegomena to Political Philosophy (2020) as well as the editor (or co-editor) of seven more volumes.

Oscar Pérez de la Fuente

He is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law and Political Philosophy of Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. Accredited as Associated Professor since February 2011. Graduated in Law in the First Graduating Class of Pompeu Fabra University (1990-1994). Doctor and Extraordinary Award of doctorate within the Program of fundamental rights in the Carlos III University of Madrid (2003-2004). He authored some books and several scientfic articles on cultural pluralism, free speech and legal interpretation. Secretary of the Department of International Law, Eclesiatical Law and Philosophy of Law UC3M, Assistant Editor of “Derechos y Libertades”, Journal of human rights and Philosophy of Law. Coordinator of the “Cultural pluralism and rights of minorities” workshop. Secretary of the Research Committee 26 on human rights of IPSA, International Political Science Association

  Alexander Tsesis

Loyola University Chicago

He is the Raymond & Mary Simon Chair in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law at the Loyola University in Chicago. He is also the General Editor of the Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Tsesis’s most recent books are Free Speech in the Balance (Cambridge University Press 2020), Constitutional Ethos: Liberal Equality for the Common Good (Oxford University Press 2017), and For Liberty and Equality: The Life and Times of the Declaration of Independence (Oxford University Press 2012). His previous books include We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law (Yale University Press 2008), The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom (New York University Press 2004), and Destructive Messages: How Hate Speech Paved the Way for Harmful Social Movements (New York University Press 2002). He is currently writing a book on First Amendment theory. The subjects of his articles range from cyber speech, constitutional interpretation, civil rights law, and human rights. They have appeared or will appear in a variety of law reviews across the country, including the Boston University Law ReviewColumbia Law ReviewCornell Law ReviewMinnesota Law ReviewNorthwestern University Law ReviewSouthern California Law ReviewUniversity of Illinois Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review. Tsesis’s scholarship focuses on a breadth of subjects, including constitutional law, civil rights, constitutional reconstruction, interpretive methodology, free speech theory, and legal history.

Jedrzej Skrzypczak 

Head of the Department of Press Systems and Press Law, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. He graduated in 2018 the Annenberg-Oxford University Media Policy Summer Institute. From 2012 to 2016, the Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board – Polish Public Regional Radio Station in Poznan, Poland, attorney at law. In 2016, he was nominated as an official candidate for the National Broadcasting Board by the opposition party Platforma Obywatelska. From 2015 to 2017, he provided expert advice to the Polish team on the project “Media Pluralism Monitor”, at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom – Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European University Institute. Member of the International Political Science Association (Research Committee 26 – Human Rights), and Vice President of the Polish Press Law Association. Author, co-author or co-editor of over one hundred papers, chapters in books and scientific journals and monography incl. “Media policy during the digital conversion of radio and television” (Poznan 2011), “Professionalism in Journalism in the Era of New Media” (Logos Verlag Berlin 2015); “Media Law in the Time of Liquid Modernity: Hot Topics in the European and Polish Media Law” (Logos Verlag Berlin 2017), “The Response to Media Criticism. Protection of Personal Rights of Human Being in the Digital Era” (Poznan 2017). 

Migle Laukyte

She is currently a Tenure-Track Professor in Cyberlaw and Cyber-Rights at the Law Faculty of the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). Between 2015 and 2019 she was CONEX-Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). She holds a PhD in law from the Bologna University School of law and has been for two years a Max Weber Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence, Italy). Migle’s work is mainly dedicated to legal and ethical questions related to Artificial Intelligence, such as legal personhood of AI, consumer protection and robotics, governance of AI and human rights and AI. She has published numerous works on these topics, is co-founder of academic unit on Human Rights, Diversity and New Technologies (www.dertecnia.com) at the UC3M. 

David Han

He is a Professor of Law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law. His scholarship focuses on First Amendment law and tort law, and his work has appeared in journals such as the New York University Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Emory Law Journal, William and Mary Law Review, and Wisconsin Law Review.

At Pepperdine, Professor Han teaches in the areas of First Amendment law, tort law, and criminal procedure. Before joining the Pepperdine faculty, he was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law, and he practiced as a litigation associate with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in San Francisco.Professor Han is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. After graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Michael Boudin on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for the Honorable David H. Souter on the Supreme Court of the United States

Tatiana L. Barandova 

PhD in Sociology, Associate Professor, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, North-West Institute of Administration, Faculty of IR and Political Science, Department of International Relations at St.Petersburg; Associate Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics Campus at Saint-Petersburg, School of Social and Oriental Science, Department of Political Science; Alumni, European University at St.Petersburg, Political Science and Sociology Department, Gender Studies Programme (MA validation by Helsinki University), Graduated MA in Social Pedagogy at the Russian State Pedagogical University named after I.Hertsen,  BA in Legal Studies (Contemporary Humanitarian Academy). Author of monograph “Symbolical Discursive Practices of State Human Rights Protection. Experiences of Applied Visual Political Science” (Spb: Aletheia, 2021) and more than 70 articles on Human Rights, Social Policy, Symbolic Policy, etc. Former Secretary of the Research Committee 26 on human rights of IPSA, International Political Science Association. Former Secretary of the Saint-Petersburg Association of Sociologists, Gender Section. Feminist Movement Member, Poet.

Irene Spigno

General Director of the Inter-American Academy of Human Rights of the Autonomous University of Coahuila (Mexico). Director of the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies of the Inter-American Academy of Human Rights. PhD in Comparative Constitutional Law from the University of Siena (Italy). Among her research interests, there is freedom of expression – and in particular hate speech-  political freedoms, constitutional justice and multiculturalism from a comparative perspective. Speaker at many international conferences worldwide (among the others, in Mexico, Australia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, Spain and Italy). Participants in many research projects on human rights, participation and democracy and comparative constitutional law.