The Standards of Public Debate

On 20 and 21 April 2022, Charles Girard and Pierre Auriel organised a conference entitled « Freedom of Expression and Democracy in Europe ». The fourth panel was dedicated to the standards of public debate.

Program :

• Jacob Rowbottom, University of Oxford – Securing an informed public: free speech and the challenges of misinformation
• Andrew T. Kenyon, University of Melbourne – Sustained plural public speech: positive obligations, freedom of speech, and the European Court of Human Rights 
• Tarlach McGonagle, University of Amsterdam – Equality of access and equality of participation: the lodestars or unreachable stars of public debate? 
• Martha Minow, Harvard University – Critical discussion

The panel was moderated by Charles Girard