CELE Seminar

Since December 2020, CELE has organized a bimonthly virtual seminar on freedom of expression, where works in progress or recently published are discussed. While in its first year the focus was on academic production in Latin America, since 2022 the seminar has included global topics. The seminar is an academic space for discussion: papers are read in advance and discussed in a collegial setting for one hour.
CELE Seminar

2026 Seminars

  • Facundo Capurro Robles and María Luz Silveira (Procuración General de la Nación - Área de Competencia Múltiple ante la Corte Suprema), Freedom of expression in the digital environment: some pending debates and challenges in the case law of the Supreme Court.
  • Joan Barata and Elena Lazar (University of Bucharest), Platform regulation, child protection and freedom of expression: The European debate.
  • Juan Ortiz Freuler (New York University), Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control.

2025 Seminars

  • Emiliano Vitaliani (Yale Law School), The consequences of words. How European courts struggle to make sense of the journalistic exemption.
  • Agneris Sampetri (Access Now and Dublin University), Potential unintended consequences of market regulation in tech: fostering freedom of expression.
  • David Greene (EFF), The problems of mandatory age verification. A discussion of the «Paxton» case.
  • Rubén García Higuera (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), The public sphere and regulation: a human rights approach.

2024 Seminars

  • Robert Gorwa (WZB), The Politics of Platform Regulation.
  • Beatriz Botero (SciencesPo), Data Governance and Artificial Intelligence.
  • Gustavo Beade (Universidad Austral de Chile), Public reproach as moral persuasion.

2023 Seminars

  • David Greene (Electronic Frontier Foundation), The future of intermediary liability in the United States.
  • Arturo Carrillo (George Washington University) and Matías Jackson (Universidad de la República), Follow the Leader? Comparative Law Study of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation’s Impact in Latin America.
  • Mathew Kramer (University of Cambridge), Hate-Speech Bans are at Odds With Central Principles of Liberalism.
  • Martin Husovec (London School of Economics), Risk assessment in the European Union’s Digital Services Act.
  • Natalie Alkiviadou (Justitia Senior Research Fellow), Hate-Speech. The Enduring Question of Thresholds.
  • Ana Jacoby (Universidad Autónoma de Campeche), Is the cure worse than the disease? An analysis of legislation to combat health disinformation in light of inter-American standards.

2022 Seminars

  • John Charney (Universidad Católica de Valparaíso), Three conceptions of informational pluralism.
  • María Luisa Stasi (Article 19), Unbundling hosting and content curation on social media.
  • Eric Goldman (Santa Clara University School of Law), Compelled editorial transparency and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Zauderer case.
  • Molly Land (University of Connecticut School of Law), Global Free Speech Rules.

2021 Seminars

  • Juan Ortiz Freuler (USC Annenberg), Towards a digital ‘non-aligned’ movement.
  • Brenda Dvoskin (Harvard Law School), The role of civil society in content moderation.
  • Domingo Lovero Parmo (Universidad Diego Portales), Protest as choreography: On the limits of the legal regulation of protest.
  • Gustavo Gómez (Observacom), Platform transparency, and something more?
  • Carlos Cortés and Luisa Isaza (Linterna Verde), The new normal? Disinformation and content control on social media during COVID-19.
  • Felix Simon (University of Oxford) and Chico Camargo (University of Exeter), Autopsy of a metaphor: The origins, use and blind spots of the ‘infodemic’.