BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260531T224551EDT-1715ngf859@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260601T024551Z DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\nThe Supreme Court of the United States is s et to consider the two cases involving Florida and Texas’s social media la ws\, signalling a hugely significant court battle in the United States abo ut the questions of free speech and social media regulation. This court ba ttle comes at a moment when democracies around the world grapple with simi lar issues.\n\nThe 2022 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture will consider the US ca se and address broader questions surrounding free speech and social media regulation. Such questions include: why do we protect free speech? Is free speech still worth protecting? Why is free speech online more complex tha n free speech offline? What kinds of regulations should we oppose in this space and which should we welcome?\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nJameel Jaffer d irects the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University\, which defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through s trategic litigation\, research\, and public education. Under Jaffer’s lead ership\, the Institute has filed precedent-setting litigation\, undertaken major interdisciplinary research initiatives\, and become an influential voice in debates about the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age. Jaffer previously served as deputy legal director at the American Ci vil Liberties Union\, where he oversaw the organization’s work on free spe ech\, privacy\, technology\, national security\, and international human r ights. Over the course of his fourteen years at the ACLU\, he argued civil liberties cases in multiple appeals courts as well as the U.S. Supreme Co urt and testified many times before U.S. federal agencies and the U.S. Con gress. Jaffer’s recent writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the Ne w Yorker\, Foreign Affairs\, and the Yale Law Journal Forum. He is an exec utive editor of Just Security\, a national security blog\, and his most re cent book\, The Drone Memos\, was one of the Guardian’s “Best Books of 201 6.” He is a graduate of Williams College\, Cambridge University\, and Harv ard Law School. Early in his legal career\, he served as a law clerk to Ho n. Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit\, and then to Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin\, Chief Justice of Canada. He curr ently serves on the board of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation\, on th e advisory board for First Look Media’s Press Freedom Litigation Fund\, an d on the advisory board for the Center for Democracy and Technology.\n\nRe gistration open and mandatory.\n\nThis public lecture is generously suppor ted by the Beaverbrook Foundation. Foundation president Timothy Aitken is a 91 graduate and grandson of Canadian-born British newspaper magnate and politician Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964). The Centre for Media\, Techno logy and Democracy thanks the Beaverbrook Foundation for their support.\n DTSTART:20221019T210000Z DTEND:20221019T233000Z LOCATION:Centre PHI 315 Rue Saint-Paul Ouest Montréal\, QC H2Y 2A3 SUMMARY:Free Speech and the Regulation of Social Media - 2022 Annual Beaver brook Lecture URL:/law/channels/event/free-speech-and-regulation-soc ial-media-2022-annual-beaverbrook-lecture-342481 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR