Strategic Partnerships
Oxford College – Value Media Regulation Moot Courtroom Competitors
 For over a decade, CGFoE has collaborated with the Value Media Regulation Moot Courtroom Competitors on the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, College of Oxford, the place Dr. Hawley Johnson steadily serves as a choose in regional and worldwide rounds.
In February 2025, Dr. Johnson performed a outstanding function on the MENA Rounds in Cairo, Egypt, delivering opening remarks, talking on a panel dialogue, and serving as a finals rounds choose. In April 2025, Dr. Johnson was a part of the star number of judges, presiding over the Worldwide Rounds at College of Oxford, the place she additionally held a joint session on Defending Freedom of Expression by Comparative Case Regulation with Lautaro Furfaro, CGFoE’s Senior Authorized Researcher.
This continued involvement displays CGFoE’s deep dedication to fostering the subsequent technology of free expression advocates. Many former mooters have gone on to affix CGFoE as authorized researchers, whereas others function Moot Courtroom coaches—actively selling and incorporating the World Case Regulation Database into authorized coaching and advocacy. Previously two years, CGFoE has deepened its engagement by a partnership with Professor Ahmed Khalifa of Ain Shams Regulation College, Cairo, Egypt, who additionally serves because the Center East Coordinator for the Oxford Value Media Moot Courtroom Competitors.
Collectively, now we have performed two five-week on-line seminars, “Freedom of Expression within the Digital Realm: New Actors and Novel Challenges,” designed to equip Moot Courtroom alumni and legislation college students with experience in worldwide human rights legislation, comparative legislation, and authorized writing strategies. Members have come from Egypt, Palestine, Libya, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia, with a 3rd seminar scheduled for June–July 2025.
Toolkit: What’s in a Joke? Assessing Humor in Free Speech Jurisprudence
CGFoE partnered with Discussion board for Humor and the Regulation (ForHum) to develop a judicial toolkit on the safety of humor and satire as important types of democratic expression. The toolkit supplies authorized steering on assessing humorous speech, drawing from human rights legislation, mental property legislation, and humor scholarship. On October 24, 2024, CGFoE hosted an knowledgeable evaluation assembly with ForHum’s Advisory Board, adopted by a public panel dialogue on October 25 that includes two authors and a roundtable dialogue with esteemed authorized consultants, together with Woman Justice Stella Isibhakhomen Anukam (African Courtroom on Human and Peoples’ Rights); JUDr. Barbora Bukovská (ARTICLE 19); Mehdi Benchelah (UNESCO); Decide Darian Pavli (European Courtroom of Human Rights). Funded by the Dutch Analysis Council, the toolkit will formally launch in Spring 2025.
CYRILLA Collaborative
Since 2019, CGFoE has been a part of the CYRILLA Collaborative, a worldwide initiative managing an open-access authorized database on digital rights. The Collaborative contains 5 key companions: CIPIT (Kenya); SMEX (Lebanon); APC (Asia); Derechos Digitales (DD) (Chile); and CGFoE (U.S.). With assist from the U.S. Division of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, CGFoE labored on increasing the database in French and Arabic and printed 70 new case analyses on digital rights.
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