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Are racist jokes funny or dangerous? Can they be both? My new blog on ECtHR's inadequate analysis of satirical hate speech: satire is a vital political instrument, but courts must be mindful of humor's ability to propagate and legitimize prejudice and bigotry. Based on my article: tinyurl.com/humrz

Yesterday at @ccds-aup.bsky.social, the workshop on "Autonomy and the Law", was a very insightful and stimulating event, with great colleagues. @rzinigrad.bsky.social Do not hesitate to join the next one in June on Cities' Autonomy (sites.google.com/view/worksho...)

Attend our interdisciplinary workshop on “Autonomy and the Law” on May 13, with a focus on the right to housing, the concept of autonomy in law, child autonomy, and digital markets. Program and registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSAutLaw Organized by Marc Goetzmann & @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social

Une première, je viens d'enregistrer un podcast d'une heure et demie sur le thème de la vulnérabilité en philosophie politique (avec l'aide de collègues à AUP pour la technique). J'espère que ce sera disponible dans les prochaines semaines. Quels autres thèmes vous intéresserait?

Excited to share my article on parental rights is now published in N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change Harbinger. It argues that parental authority in education is better seen as a special regulatory power, not a right to control education. Full article here: tinyurl.com/ParRegul

How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates? @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) will discuss “Mainstreaming the Far Right” on Friday, April 18. Discussant: Friederike Windel (AUP). Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker

Join our webinar to discuss the #AbidjanPrinciples on the regulation of private education in international law, with @rzinigrad.bsky.social and other experts on the right to education. Feb. 20, 10:00 (Paris time). Register here: bit.ly/4jMRhhS.

Fantastic presentation and commentary at @pyneron.bsky.social's book launch, "Seeing Like a Firm" (OUP, 2024): on the political theory of the firm, conservatism and TNCs, workplace democracy, and the (innate?) inequality in corporate structures. Organized by @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social and Peter Hägel

The CO3 consortium convenes at The American University of Paris to present its members’ findings and plan for the next steps in the development of the “Continuous Social Contract”. The meeting also kicks off the first day of the “Renewing the Social Contract” Conference.

Join us on Dec 18-19 for an international conference on “Renewing the Social Contract: The Challenge of Inclusivity and Democratic Government in Social Contract Theory”. Conference website: aup.edu/news-events/... Guest registration: forms.gle/Fk6Tav8PbWrh...

❗🌴Job announcement 2: Poli Sci/IR (Environmental Politics) Assistant Professor. Deadline for applications: Dec 1. Come work with us!

❗🥷Job announcement: IR Assistant Professor. Deadline for applications: Dec 1. Come work with us

Thank you, @reedbrody.bsky.social, for speaking with our IHRL and IL students at AUP, about the (grim) prospects of human rights advocacy, future strategies of @hrw.org, the ICC’s impact on the war in Gaza, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social’s critique of human rights, and your 2022 book, “To Catch a Dictator”

Join us on Dec 2 at the AUP CCDS for a talk with historian Alvita Akiboh (Yale) on her book, “Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire (UCP, 2023). Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSAkiboh

Martti Koskenniemi will deliver a lecture on “The Law of International Society: A Road Not Taken” at AUP, on October 10, at 10:30. Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSKoskenniemi. Moderator: Anne-Charlotte Martineau (CNRS). Co-organized with @dogot.bsky.social.

Join us on Sep 16 for a seminar on "Boycotting German and Germany: Artistic Censorship and the Creation of Israel". The paper will be presented by Adam Shinar (Reichman U), and commented by Marcela Iacub (EHESS) & Mariana Dias Paes (AUP) Registration: tinyurl.com/ShinarCCDS

🎓📖📣⚖️🤡Can Europeans make racist jokes and should satirical hate-speech be protected more than hate-speech that isn’t funny at all? If you’re interested in the “humor defense” of free speech, read my new article: “Laughing Matters in Courts”: t.co/8ua3N0MCqo

Join us for the Academic Freedom Symposium on May 17, with a Keynote address delivered by Robert Post. Participants: Eleonora Bottini, Olivier Beaud, and Camille Fernandes. Registration: tinyurl.com/RobertPostAUP