Summer Round Up: Research and Resources

The past two months have produced a rich crop of articles on media and legal issues which may be of interest to readers of Inforrm. We list these under five headings:  Free Speech and Defamation, Privacy and Data Protection, Interception and Surveillance, Cyberbullying and European Convention on Human Rights.

Free Speech and Defamation

• Free Speech and ‘a Law of Rules’ First Amendment Law Review, Forthcoming, Ashutosh Avinash Bhagwat, University of California, Davis – School of Law.
• Two Rights of Free Speech Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 6-37, Andrei Marmor, Cornell University – Law School
• Free Speech Law for on Premise Signs Daniel R. Mandelker, Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law
• Hate Speech Laws: Ratifying the Assassin’s Veto Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 791. 1, Robert Corn-Revere, Davis Wright Tremaine
• Survival of the Fittest Ideas: The Enduring Importance of Free Speech on Campus, Timothy McGettigan, Colorado State University – Pueblo
• Freedom of Speech Under Assault on Campus Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 796, Daniel Jacobson, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
• ‘Freedom of Speech and Expression’ as a Fundamental Right in India and the Test of Constitutional Regulations: The Constitutional Perspective Indian Bar Review, Volume XLIII (2) 2016, pp. 87-110. Aqa Raza, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Faculty of Law, Students
• In Fact, It’s a Matter of Opinion: Determining a Distinction between Fact and Opinion within the New Zealand Defence of Honest Opinion Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper, Wendy Riseley, Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Law, Student/Alumni
• The Regulation of Defamation and Insult in Europe, András Koltay (Ed.): Comparative Perspectives on the Fundamental Freedom of Expression. Wolters Kluwer, Budapest, 2015, Pp. 487-517, Zoltan J. Toth, Karoli Gaspar University, Budapest
• The Supreme Court’s Stealth Return to the Common Law of Torts  Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2843601, John C. P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

Privacy and Data Protection

• A Special Regard: The Court of Justice and the Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection  K. Irion, “A Special Regard: The Court of Justice and the Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection”, in Faber et al (eds.) Festschrift für Wolfhard Kohte (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016 Forthcoming), Institute for Information Law Research Paper No. 2016-04, Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2016-35, Kristina Irion, University of Amsterdam
• Statutory Regulation of Professional Journalism Under European Data Protection: Down But Not Out? University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 35/2016, David Erdos, University of Cambridge – Faculty of Law
• Article 4(1)(A) ‘Establishment of the Controller’ in EU Data Privacy Law – Time to Rein in this Expanding Concept? International Data Privacy Law 6(3), Forthcoming, Dan Svantesson, Bond University – School of Law
• The Transformation of Human Rights in the Information Society Connected with the Formulation of the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ by the European Court of Justice Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 6 No 6 S3, November 2015, Svetlana Nikolaevna Revina and Aleksey Leonidovich Zaharov, Samara State University of Economics and Samara State University of Economics
• Data Protection in South Africa: The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 in Light of Recent International Developments (1) Journal of Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law, Vol. 79, p. 51-68, 2016, A Naude and Sylvia Papadopoulos, Private Practice and University of Pretoria – Faculty of Law
• The Privacy Principle Yale Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, Frederic G. Sourgens, Washburn University – School of Law
• Balancing of Interest Vis a Vis Press Rights, Rituparna Bhattacharjee, NEF Law College

Interception and Surveillance

• Minnesota Passes the Nation’s First Internet Privacy Law Rutgers University Computer & Technology Law Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2003, Jordan M. Blanke, Mercer University – Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics
• Behind a Veil of Obscurity – Anonymity, Encryption, Free Speech and Privacy, The International Journal of Technology, Law and Policy, Forthcoming, Christoph Bezemek, IOER
• Ten Legal Perspectives on the ‘Big Data Revolution’ Concorrenza e Mercato (Giuffrè Publisher, Milan, Italy), Forthcoming, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich and Giorgio Giannone Codiglione, University of Rome III – Department of Law and University of Salerno
• The Role of U.S. Technology Companies as Enforcers of Europe’s New Internet Hate Speech Ban Forthcoming in Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online, Evelyn Aswad, University of Oklahoma College of Law

Cyberbullying

• Canadian Legal Approaches to ‘Cyberbullying’ and Cyberviolence: An Overview, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2016-37, Jane Bailey,University of Ottawa – Common Law Section
• Cyberbullying: A Study of Causes, Implications and Mitigation, Ananya Vohra and John J Donovan, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Students and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Sexting and the Law in Canada, Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 22(3), 2013, Andrea Slane,University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Legal Studies
• A Tort Perspective on Cyberbullying, Chapman Law Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2016, Denis Binder, Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
• Triggering Tinker: Student Speech in the Age of Cyberharassment,University of Miami Law Review, Vol. 71, 2016, Forthcoming, Ari Ezra Waldman, New York Law School

European Convention on Human Rights

• Proportionality and the European Convention on Human Rights: A Critical View  Panagiotis Souliotis, Leiden University – Leiden Law School
• Did the Romans Get it Right? What Delfi, Google, eBay, and UPC TeleKabel Wien Have in Common L. Floridi and M. Taddeo, The Responsibilities of Online Service Providers, Springer, 2016, Peggy Valcke, Aleksandra Kuczerawy and Pieter-Jan Ombelet, KU Leuven – Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), KU Leuven – Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) and KU Leuven – Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP)
• Damages and Human Rights: Introduction,  Chapter 1 of JNE Varuhas, Damages and Human Rights (Hart Publishing, 2016), Jason N. E. Varuhas, University of Melbourne Law School