2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law
Can You Hear Me? Speech and power in the global digital town Square
Date: April 08, 2022
Time: 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
Location: Online & in-person
Washington Hilton, Columbia 5-8
Virtual Session
Live Q&A
With the modern marketplace of ideas and discourse increasingly centered online on digital platforms, cutting across territorial borders and communities, international law scholars and practitioners are grappling with challenging questions of who gets to speak, who gets heard, and perhaps most importantly, who gets to decide or to influence the answer to such questions. A critical confrontation of international law in the information age, its impact is felt at the individual, community and global level in social movements and regulation that requires the participation of governments and private corporations. This will be explored in a cutting-edge roundtable that brings together legal experts from various disciplines, including human rights, technology law and social activism. They will address through thematic case studies what the right to free speech means in the digital age; whether there are issues specific to the right being thus exercised that international law does not have ready answers to; and if iterative rules are demanded or are being applied at present, what actors ought to be involved and the power dynamics it occasions. As the paradigm shift in how international law operates in our individual daily life continues to play out, are we prepared, and will we be heard?
Panelists:
- Arsalan Suleman, Foley Hoag
- Shannon Raj Singh, Twitter
- Jacquelene Mwangi, Harvard Law School
- Emma Llansó, Center for Democracy and Technology
Moderator:
- Catherine Powell, Fordham Law School