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8th Annual Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC)

8th Annual Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC)
At the Annual Conference of the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) on 11 May 2019, our PhD student Amélie Pia Heldt will give the lecture "Merging Free Speech and Content Moderation: a Public Social Forum?"
 
The conference is hosted by McGill Law School and the Crépeau Centre in Montréal. It is taking place for the eighth time and aims to promote young academics in the field of comparative law and offer them a platform.
 
Amélie Pia Heldt is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

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