Laura E. Little (Temple Law School), 20 December 2022
Factual Background
Jack Daniel’s whiskey manufacturer initiated this case when VIP Products started to market a dog toy in the image of a Jack Daniel’s liquor bottle. VIP designs, markets, and …
2 December 2022
Jennifer Young and Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen) are convening a stream on ‘Comedy Controversies: Humour and Free Speech’ within the upcoming annual conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (Derry – Londonderry, 4-6 April 2023).
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Sabine Jacques (University of East Anglia), 14 November 2022
COMMUNIA and Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte co-hosted the Filtered Futures conference on 19 September 2022 to discuss fundamental rights constraints of upload filters after the CJEU ruling on article 17 of the …
Budapest / Online, 8 November 2022
On November 8th, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of the Central European University hosted the roundtable ‘Judging Jests: Humor, Free Speech and the Law’. The event was organized in …
2 November 2022
The article ‘Laughing Matters: Humor, Free Speech and Hate Speech at the European Court of Human Rights’ (by Alberto Godioli, Jennifer Young and Matteo Fiori) has just been published by the International Journal for the Semiotics of …
The 29th Conference of the Australasian Humour Studies Network will take place on 6-7 (Zoom, online only) and 9-10 (in-person only) February 2023.
The conference focuses on the theme ‘A Human Right to Humour’, with particular regard to questions …
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, New York / Online, 14 October 2022
A recording of the event is now available HERE
Organizers: Dr. Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen) and Prof. Laura Little (Temple Law School)
Negotiating the legal boundaries …
5 August 2022
HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research has just published a special issue titled ‘Humor and the Law: The Difficulty of Judging Jests’, guest-edited by Brigitte Adriaensen, Andrew Bricker, Alberto Godioli and Ted Laros.
The special issue features …
This page features a constantly updated list of books, articles and other scholarly resources on topics related to humor and the law. Should you have any comments or suggestions, please email info@forhum.org.
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