This is a past event
You are cordially invited to attend this seminar, which is co-organised by the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law (ACCPIL) and Centre for Private International Law & Transnational Governance (CPILTG).
Short summary
Major Internet platforms and the tasks of content moderation they perform are central to Informational capitalism. How far can and should the state make platforms responsible for what they include and exclude? What sort of legality is produced and required? What ,if anything, can be learned from the long experience of self -governance by those editing Wikipedia?
Biography of our speaker
Professor Nelken taught law at Cambridge, Edinburgh and University College, London, from 1976-1989 before moving to Italy in 1990 as Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change at the University of Macerata. From 1995 to 2013 he was also Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Cardiff University, and from 2010 to 2014 Visiting Professor of Criminology at Oxford University. Awards received include the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholar Award (1985), the Sellin-Glueck International award of the American Criminological Society (2009), the Podgorecki Distinguished senior scholar award from the International Sociological Association (2011) and the (USA) Law & Society Association’s International Scholar Award (2013).
He is a Fellow of the British Academy (Law section) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. On the editorial board of numerous journals, he is also a member of the Independent Board of the SCOPUS (Elsevier) Database of peer-reviewed literature, where he is responsible for evaluating all law journals worldwide. He was a Panel member of Scottish Children's Hearings juvenile justice system 1979-1983, of Italian Regional Crime committees in the 1990's and, amongst many visiting appointments, was the Global Law professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, for 2014. He was appointed to the REF Law Committee for 2021.
- Speaker
- Prof David Nelken
- Hosted by
- Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law: Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance
- Venue
- Hybrid: MS Teams and Taylor Building, C11
- Contact
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For queries please contact Dr Michiel Poesen (michiel.poesen@abdn.ac.uk).