THE UC NATIONAL CENTER FOR FREE SPEECH AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, THE UCI LAW INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE CLINIC, AND THE UCI LAW CENTER ON GLOBALIZATION, LAW, AND SOCIETY PRESENT

Rebecca MacKinnon
Rebooting U.S. Global Internet Policy for Democracy and Human Rights

How should American policy promote and protect internet freedom? Can human rights provide a framework for constraining the behavior of technology companies? What would a ‘reboot’ of U.S. internet policy look like after Trump?

Join us for a lecture and discussion with Rebecca MacKinnon, one of the leading voices for human rights online. MacKinnon, a fellow with the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, is the founder and director of Ranking Digital Rights and a co-founder of Global Voices. Her 2012 book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, was one of the first to address the way in which governments were beginning to use the internet to interfere with fundamental rights. She serves on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists and was a founding member of the Global Network Initiative. Rebecca, fluent in Mandarin Chinese, was CNN’s Beijing bureau chief from 1998-2001 and Japan bureau chief from 2001-2003. She has held fellowships at the New America Foundation, Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Open Society Foundation, and Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

Thursday, February 20, 2020
5:00–6:30 p.m. | LAW 3500
UCI School of Law | 401 E. Peltason Dr., Irvine, CA 92697
Light refreshments will be provided.
This event is free and open to the public.

Register at the link provided.