CfP: IACL Conference on 'Free Speech in the 21st Century'

Call for Proposals

The International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) and its "Freedom of Speech" Research Group are pleased to announce the call for papers for the international conference:

Free Speech in the 21st Century

July 3-4, 2020
Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Submissions for conference papers or presentations are invited primarily from legal scholars and political scientists who are interested in the theory and practice of freedom of expression, access to information, communication law, and media law.

Interested scholars should send their full name, affiliation, email address, and an abstract of no more than 200 words by email by 31 January 2020 to jurij.toplak@almamater.si with a subject line "The IACL 2020 Proposal". Early submissions are welcome. Full panel proposals are welcome. Successful applicants will be notified by end of February 2020.

There is no registration fee. Two meals will be generously provided by the Alma Mater Europaea of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Successful applicants are responsible for securing their own travel and accommodation costs.

Venue: a centrally located hotel in Ljubljana to be announced by January 2020.

Accommodation: a centrally located hotel will be suggested, and several hotels are nearby.

Submissions are invited on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:

Access to Information
Book Banning
Cameras in the Courtroom
Campaign Finance, Money and Elections Censorship
Commercial Speech
Comparative Studies of Free Speech or Access to Information
Cyberbullying, Cybersquatting, Cyberstalking
Elections and Free Speech
Fake News
Filming the Police
Freedom of Assembly
Freedom of Speech of Prisoners, Military Personnel, Attorneys, Judges, Panhandlers, Public Employees, etc.
Hate Speech
Holocaust Denial
Internet and Online Speech
Libraries and Intellectual Freedom
Limits on Telemarketing
Media Concentration
Methodology of Free Speech Research
Music Quotas
National Security and Freedom of Speech
Online Advertising
Political Correctness
Privacy and Freedom of Expression
Private Property, Expression on Profanity, Obscenity and Pornography
Propaganda
Protests
Public Nudity
Political Campaigns
Recent Freedom of Speech Case-Law in a Given Country, Group of Countries, or International Court
Reporter’s Privilege
Revenge Pornography
Right to be Forgotten
Rumors
Satire
Social Media and Law
Spam
Students' Expression, Teachers' Expression, Free Speech in Schools
Symbolic Speech
Tobacco or Alcohol Advertising

Since 1981, the IACL has been the leading international association of constitutional scholars. The IACL Freedom of Speech Research Group was formed in 2018 at the IACL's Constitutional Law World Congress in Seoul. Its objective is to connect free speech scholars from around the world. Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu of Academia Sinica (chhsu73@gate.sinica.edu.tw) and Jurij Toplak of University of Maribor (jurij.toplak@almamater.si) serve as co-chairs. The 2020 meeting in Ljubljana will be the inaugural meeting of the research group and we expect about 40 leading scholars from all continents.