Human Rights Law and Regulating Freedom of Expression in New Media: Lessons from Nordic Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780367893804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Mart Susi; Jukka Viljanen; Eirikur Jonsson

Opis

This book focuses on the multi-layered and complicated relationship between internet and human rights law. It contributes to the ongoing discussion regarding the protection of freedom of expression on the internet in the context of various doctrines of constitutional law, including the proliferation of constitutional adjudication.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Intermediary Liability for Online User Comments Under the European Convention on Human Rights  3. Freedom of Speech and Online Media in Denmark   4. Estonia – Raising High the Roof Beams of Freedom of Expression: New Media Environment in Estonia  5. Finland   6. Icelandic Online Media Law and the ECHR  7. Regulation of Online Media in Latvia   8. Human Rights Law and Regulating Freedom of Expression in New Media: Lithuania   9. Regulation of Online Media in Norway   10. Internet, Freedom of Expression and the Right to Privacy in Sweden   11. Comparative Analysis of the Nordic/Baltic Approaches and Standards  12. Updating Freedom of Expression Doctrines in the New Media Cases: Lessons from Strasbourg and Other International Treaty Bodies

O autorze

Mart Susi is Professor of Human Rights Law and Head of Legal Studies at Tallinn University. He has been leading several international research and development projects (EU Commission-funded Horizon 2020 project "Hurmur" and Nordic Council of Ministers-funded project "Law and Media Network"). He has authored several monographs and more than 50 articles. Currently, he is editing several books on the topics of new media, and human rights and the digital society. Susi has recently introduced and is developing the concept of the Internet Balancing Formula.

Jukka Viljanen is Professor of Public Law, Adjunct Professor of Human Rights Law and University Lecturer at the University of Tampere. He is an author of several international articles on the European Court of Human Rights and its doctrines. Viljanen has been leading several important research projects, e.g. ALL-YOUTH (Strategic Research Council, 2018–2020), Law and Media (Finnish sub-group) (Nordplus, 2015–2017), evaluation of Finnish Human Rights National Action Plan (Ministry of Justice, 2013–2014) and Finnish environmental constitutional right (Ministry of Environment, 2014).

Eiríkur Jónsson graduated as Cand. Juris from the University of Iceland (Faculty of Law) in 2002, LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2006 and Ph.D. from the University of Iceland in 2011. Among other positions he has served as the chairman of the Icelandic Media Commission, chairman of the Icelandic Appeals Committee of Consumer Affairs, appointed judge at the District Court of Reykjavík and as an alternate judge at the Supreme Court of Iceland. He has written several books on Icelandic law, among other things on media law.

Artūrs Kučs is a judge of the Constitutional Court of Latvia and professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia. His research areas include comparative human rights law and media law, especially analysis on privacy, defamation and hate speech laws. Artūrs Kučs has been Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Connecticut and DAAD Visiting Scholar at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.