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New Research Project on Comedians’ ‘Cautious Labor’

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025 by admin
Photo by Lianhao Qu on Unsplash

Dr Qian Huang, assistant professor at the University of Groningen and ForHum member, was recently awarded a Veni research grant by the Dutch Research Council for her project Negotiating Digital Visibility: Public Intellectuals’ …

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Bears, Repeating: Parody, Intellectual Property, and Children’s Characters

October 25, 2025October 11, 2025 by admin

Dr Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen)

Promotional image for ‘The Rest Is Bulls*!t’. Source: Avalon.

How many of you still remember Cocaine Bear, the outlandish B-movie which acquired viral internet fame in early 2023? For those who do, …

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Designed to Provoke: An Exhibition on Visual Humor and the Law

October 22, 2025October 7, 2025 by admin
James Gillray, ‘The presentation – or – the wise men’s offering’, 1796 (National Portrait Gallery, London)

We are happy to report that the traveling exhibition Designed to Provoke: Visual Humor in Court, 1749-2025 was officially launched at the 44th International …

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Jokes or accusations? Epstein, Trump, and the ‘Narcomedian’

October 9, 2025October 4, 2025 by admin

Luisa Fernanda Isaza-Ibarra (University of Groningen)

A still from the Colombian satirical show ‘Fucks News’ (2021)

Against the efforts of Donald Trump to kill the conversation about the Epstein files, people are talking and the jokes keep flowing. As late …

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Protest, Private Eye and Plasticine Action

October 25, 2025September 11, 2025 by admin

Dr Jennifer Young and Professor David Mead (University of East Anglia)

Protest is under pressure in the UK (and unfortunately, it’s not the only place).  Recently a number of reforms have been passed which all created new powers for the …

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AHSN Podcast on Humor and the Law

September 5, 2025 by admin

The Australasian Humour Studies Network has recently launched a new long-format podcast series, titled “LET’S GET INTO IT” and hosted by Ben Nickl. The first episode focuses on humor and the law, and features three special guests:

  • Laura Little
…
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‘Just for laughs’ or ‘irony poisoning’? Humor vs. Hate in the Schild & Vrienden Appeal

August 12, 2025 by admin

Babette De Naeyer (PhD candidate, Pompeu Fabra University)

Photo by Shayna “Bepple” Take on Unsplash

Introduction

Remember the Schild & Vrienden (S&V) case we discussed last year? In March 2024, a Belgian First Instance Court convicted six prominent members of …

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Are Parody and Satire Alive and Well? South Park’s Trump Episode and Its Constitutional Protections

August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 by admin

Laura E. Little (Professor, Temple Law School) and Anja H. Hayes (Student, Temple Law School)

As evidenced by the various initiatives featured on this site, dictators and oligarchs around the world have recently flexed extra muscle to target and silence …

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Gestures and Jest: Non-Verbal Communication with Serious Legal Consequences

August 4, 2025July 2, 2025 by admin

Laura E. Little (Professor, Temple Law School) and Max Klenk (Student, Temple Law School)

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels

Beware the world of non-verbal expression, where a wave, a wink, or even a thumbs-up emoji can cause serious legal …

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OUT NOW: What’s in a Joke? Assessing Humor in Free Speech Jurisprudence

October 31, 2025April 30, 2025 by admin
Image by Tjeerd Royaards

The first edition of the toolkit What’s in a Joke? Assessing Humor in Free Speech Jurisprudence (Forum for Humor and the Law / Columbia Global Freedom of Expression) is now available here:

https://zenodo.org/records/15383543

The toolkit was …

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