João Paulo Capelotti (practicing lawyer, Curitiba, Brazil)
On 24 August 2010, the Brazilian Association of Television and Radio Broadcasts (whose acronym in Portuguese is “ABERT”) filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court to …
Jennifer Young (Postdoctoral researcher, ‘Humour in Court’ project, University of Groningen)
We are delighted to publish this contribution by ForHum founding member Jennifer Young, regarding her new (and warmly recommended!) book on satire regulation and (self-)censorship in Britain. …
On September 19th, Tjeerd Royaards (editor-in-chief, Cartoon Movement) and ForHum co-director Alberto Godioli will be conducting a workshop on The Importance of Humour for Democracy at the Netherlands Journalism Festival in Deventer. The complete programme of the festival can …
On August 24th, The IPKat published a guest contribution by ForHum co-director Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen), focusing on ODEE v. Samherji in light of the notion of culture jamming. The blog …
Prof. Laura E. Little, Temple Law School (Philadelphia, PA, USA); Miles H. Satlof, Student, Temple Law School (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
For the past several years, ForHum has featured a roundup of funny interchanges during oral arguments before the Supreme Court …
ForHum is among the signatories of an urgent statement concerning the ongoing detention of Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar, published by Cartoonists Rights on July 22nd. Please find an extract from the statement below.
July 22nd, …
The Forum for Humor and the Law will be present at the 36th conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (Niterói, Brazil, 6-10 July 2026) with a panel titled Humor studies and free speech adjudication: From theory to practice…
Alberto Godioli & Luisa Fernanda Isaza-Ibarra (University of Groningen / ForHum)
In this invited public comment to Meta’s Oversight Board, we discuss the ongoing case AI video faking UK politician’s immigration views…
On April 17th, ForHum co-director Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen) and Tjeerd Royaards (director of Cartoon Movement) conducted a workshop titled The importance of humour for democracy: good humour vs bad humour, as …
Alberto Godioli & Luisa Fernanda Isaza-Ibarra (University of Groningen / Forum for Humor and the Law)
This text has been submitted as an invited Public Comment to Meta’s Oversight Board, concerning the ongoing case of the AI-generated video of …