Oreste Pollicino and Marco Bassini will hold a lecture on “The freedom of information and the right to be forgotten: a harder and harder balance” at the IALS Hart Legal Workshop 2013, to be held in London on 24-25 June 2013
Please find below the provisional programme of the conference
W G HART LEGAL WORKSHOP 2013
The Constitution of the Public Sphere: the post-Leveson Landscape
Provisional Programme
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Monday 24 June – Tuesday 25 June, 2013
Monday 24 June
Coffee and reception 0900
Welcome 0930
IALS Director
Opening Address 0945-1045
Chair: Professor Eric Barendt, UCL; Speaker: Geoffrey Robertson QC
Parallel Panels 1045-1205
Panel 1A
Panel 5B
Lunch
Plenary Session: Media Plurality and Media Influence 1315-1435
Chair: tbc
Professor Chris Marsden, University of Sussex; Professor Lorna Woods, City University London
Parallel Panels 1435-1555
Panel 1B
Panel 2B
Coffee
Plenary Session: Media, Law and the Judiciary 1610-1730
Chair: tbc (judge)
Professor Tom Gibbons, University of Manchester; Professor Leslie Moran, Birkbeck, University of London
Workshop Dinner
Tuesday 25 June
Coffee 0900
Plenary Session: Constraining Journalism? – Newsgathering and Data Protection 0930-1050
Chair: tbc
Gill Phillips, Director of Editorial Legal Services, Guardian News and Media Ltd; Philip Coppel QC, Landmark Chambers
Parallel Panels 1050-1210
Panel 4
Panel 5A
Lunch
Plenary Session: Libel and Privacy in the Emerging Regulatory Matrix 1315-1435
Chair: tbc
Professor Alastair Mullis, University of East Anglia; Professor Gavin Phillipson, University of Durham
Parallel Panels 1435-1555
Panel 2A
Panel 3
Coffee
Plenary Session: The Future Shape, Operation and Coherence of Media Regulation 1610-1800
Chair: tbc
Professor John Horgan, Irish Press Ombudsman; Hugh Tomlinson QC, Matrix Chambers and Visiting Professor, London School of Economics; Michael McManus, Director of Transition, Press Complaints Commission; Professor Colin Scott, University College Dublin
Close of Workshop / Drinks Reception
Panels:
| 1 | Libel and privacy law in the emerging regulatory matrix | ||
| A | Chair | tbc | |
| Speakers | Eva Nagle, Barrister-at-Law, Law Library, Dublin: ‘”Unringing” the bell that has sounded so loudly: maintaining anonymity when suing for defamation and privacy in the internet realm’ | ||
| Dr Aymeric D’Alton, affiliation tbc: ‘Hurting in Defaming’ | |||
| Dr Mariusz Golecki, University of Lodz: ‘Scylla-and-Charibdis: the reform of defamation laws in comparative and economic perspectives’ | |||
| B | Chair | tbc | |
| Speakers | Professor Andrew Kenyon, University of Melbourne: ‘Free or Expensive Speech? Defamation Reform Reconsidered’ | ||
| Dr Paul Wragg, University of Leeds: ‘Leveson’s Regulator, Editorial Freedom and Press Discussion of Ordinary Members of the Public’ | |||
| <leading practitioner>: tbc | |||
| 2 | The future shape, operation and coherence of media regulation | ||
| A | Chair | Professor Andrew Murray, London School of Economics | |
| Speakers | Dr Irini Katsirea, Middlesex University: ‘tbc’ | ||
| Dr Daithi Mac Sithigh, University of Edinburgh: ‘From newspapers to news-related material: internet exceptionalism after Leveson’ | |||
| Professor Giovanna de Minico, University of Federico II, Naples: ‘Internet–democracy and freedom of speech’ | |||
| B | Chair | tbc | |
| Speakers | Professor Ian Walden, Queen Mary, University of London: ‘On the front line: lessons from the PCC’ | ||
| Chris Mhike, Partner, Atherstone and Cook / Zimbabwe Media Commission: ‘The Lord Leveson Report: Fodder for Tyrants?’ | |||
| Judith Townend, City University, London: ‘”Closed” data: obstacles to accessing information about defamation and privacy dispute resolution in England & Wales and the effect on the development of post-Leveson reform’ | |||
| 3 | Newsgathering: constraint or constrained? | ||
| Chair | tbc | ||
| Speakers | Professor Ian Cram, University of Leeds: ‘Rethinking journalists’ privileges in the era of citizen journalism’ | ||
| Dr Damien Carney, University of Portsmouth: ‘Newsgathering and criminality: a time for re-assessment of current privileges, protections and defences’ | |||
| Dr Andrew Scott, London School of Economics: ‘Hiding the truth in the shadow of the law?: the misuse of confidentiality provisions in public authority contracts’ | |||
| 4 | Data protection, the media and the public sphere | ||
| Chair | tbc | ||
| Speakers | James Michael, Associate Senior Research Fellow, IALS: ‘tbc’ | ||
| Dr David Erdos, University of Oxford: ‘A new role for data protection vis-à-vis the media in the post-Leveson environment?’ | |||
| Professor Oreste Pollicino, Bocconi University, Milan and Marco Bassini, University of Verona: ‘The freedom of information and the right to be forgotten: a harder and harder balance’ | |||
| 5 | The constitution of the public sphere: reflections on turbulent times | ||
| A | Chair | Anne Barron, London School of Economics | |
| Speakers | Richard Danbury, University of Oxford: ‘Sowing the dragon’s teeth: a right of media freedom’ | ||
| Dr Annabel Brody, University of Amsterdam: ‘Re-regulation of the print media: implications on press freedom’ | |||
| Oliver O’Callaghan, City University, London: ‘What should we protect when we protect free speech?’ | |||
| B | Chair | tbc | |
| Speakers | Dr Tarlach McGonagle, University of Amsterdam: ‘Lessons for or from Leveson? a critical examination of the Council of Europe’s new (half-baked) notion of media’ | ||
| Perry Keller, King’s College London: ‘Leveson and freedom of speech: the unintended consequences of constitutionalisation’ | |||
| Roy Peled, Columbia Law School / Tel-Aviv University:’Sunlight where it’s needed: the case for freedom of media information’ | |||
