MLPSC 2022 Workshop Lineup

We are thrilled to announce the following scholars will be presenting their work at MLPSC 2022, taking place online January 13-14. Registration is now closed.

Each workshop session runs 75 minutes with a 15-minute break between sessions.

SESSION A: THURSDAY, JANUARY 13 @ 3:30 p.m. EST

• Room 1A: Caitlin Carlson (Seattle University), On Shaky Ground: Reconsidering First Amendment Protection of Hate Speech
  • Discussant: Tori Ekstrand (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
• Room 2A: Thomas Kadri (University of Georgia), Platform Federalism
  • Discussant: Robert Gorwa (ZB Berlin Social Science Center)
• Room 3A: Hannah Bloch-Wehba (Texas A&M University), The Ideology of Press Freedom
  • Discussant: Sonja West (University of Georgia)
• Room 4A: Zaira Zarza (University of Montreal), Film Policies in the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Puerto Rico
  • Discussant: Tamara Fallicov (University of Kansas)

SESSION B: THURSDAY, JANUARY 13 @ 5 p.m. EST

• Room 1B: RonNell Andersen Jones (University of Utah) & Sonja West (University of Georgia), The Disappearing Freedom of the Press
  • Genelle Belmas (University of Kansas)
• Room 2B: Jason Guthrie (Clayton State University), For You and Me or Private Property?: The Copyright Story of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land”
  • Discussant: Cayce Myers (Virginia Tech)
• Room 3B: Kathryn Montalbano (Appalachian State University), Shielding safe spaces: The history of U.S. speech protections from the post office to the Internet
  • Discussant: Kate Klonick (St. John’s University)
• Room 4B: Pauline Trouillard (Yale University), From Broadcast Regulation to Platforms Regulation: Some Lessons from the Past and Abroad
  • Discussant: Elettra Bietti (Harvard University)

SESSION C: THURSDAY, JANUARY 13 @ 6:30 p.m. EST

• Room 1C: Jonathan Anderson (University of Minnesota), If PACER Is A ‘Scam,’ What Are State Court Records?
  • Discussant: Patrick File (University of Nevada-Reno)
• Room 2C: Siddharth Narrian (University of New South Wales), Attacks on ‘People’ v. Attacks on ‘Concepts’: Facebook’s Community Guidelines, Indian Law, and the Legal Regulation of Hate Speech Online in India
  • Discussant: Justin Francese (University of Oregon)
• Room 3C: Matthew Schafer (Fordham University), Blackstone, the First Amendment, and the Supreme Court
  • Discussant, Jared Schroeder (Southern Methodist University)

SESSION D: FRIDAY, JANUARY 14 @ 10 a.m. EST

• Room 1D: Ge Chen (Durham University), The Spill-over Effect of the Chinese Communist Party’s Regulation of Political Speech
  • Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago)
• Room 2D: Rachel Hulvey (University of Pennsylvania), The Impact of China’s Ideological Socialization on Internet Governance
  • Discussant: Rogier Creemers (Leiden University)
• Room 3D: Sari Mazzurco (Yale University), The Legal Subject of Platform Regulation
  • Elena Herrero-Beaumont (Ethosfera)
• Room 4D: Angela Woodall (Columbia University), Access and the New Governance Regimes: An Empirical Assessment of Platform Governance Through Technical Affordances and Policy Setting by Private Information Intermediaries
  • Discussant: Meg Leta Jones (Georgetown)

SESSION E: FRIDAY, JANUARY 14 @ 11:30 a.m. EST

• Room 1E: András Koltay (University of Public Service), The Protection of Freedom of Expression from Social Media Platforms
  • Discussant: Robert Kahn (University of St. Thomas)
• Room 2E: Christina Koningisor (University of Utah), Police Secrecy Exceptionalism
  • Discussant: Cynthia Conti-Cook (Ford Foundation)
• Room 3E: Larisa Mann (Temple University), Deviant Safety: Surveillance Technology and Club Culture
  • Discussant: savah saheli singh (University of Ottawa)
• Room 4E: Simon Sun (Indiana University), Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and Internet Intermediary Liability: An Algorithmic Approach
  • Discussant: Eric Goldman (Santa Clara University)