Human Rights, Digital Society and the Law

Mart Susi is Professor of Human Rights Law at Tallinn University, Estonia.

• 1. Introduction Human rights in the digital domain – the idea of non-coherence theory, Mart Susi 2. Right to the internet and rights inside the internet – theoretical dimension The sameness of human rights online and offline, Miloon Kothari Right of access to the internet – global approaches, Carolina Aguerre The right to privacy: the end of Privacy Fatalism, Jonathon Penney Freedom of expression online, Matthias C. Kettemann and Wolfgang Benedek The digital disruption of human rights foundations – Hin-Yan Liu 3. Legislation, judicial and stakeholder practices – practical dimension The main challenges related to protecting human rights in the internet - Changrok Soh, Daniel Connolly and Seunghyun Nam Liability regimes for online human rights violations, Sten Schaumburg-Müller Multistakeholderism – meaning and implications, Joanna Kulesza Judicial balancing of human rights online, Oreste Pollicino and Oleg Soldatov The role and practices of online stakeholders, Thomas Wischmeyer The jurisprudence of the ECJ and ECtHR regarding data protection in the internet, Carsten M. Wulff The Internet Balancing Formula, Mart Susi 4. Specific issues related to human rights and the internet Human rights and the right to be forgotten, Ugo Pagallo and Massimo Durante Finding a judicial definition of journalism: a challenging exercise in the digital age, Ellen Hovlid Combating hate speech online – Jukka Viljanen European copyright and human rights in the digital sphere, Christina Angelopoulos Digital security and human rights: a plea for counter-infringement measures, Mireille Hildebrandt 5. Data protection issues The challenge of personal data protection in the digital era and global responses, Alexandros Varveris and Fereniki Panagopoulou Data protection in the private sector: convergence or localization of rights and expectations? W. Scott Blackmer The protection of personal data in a digital society: the role of the GDPR, Tiina Pajuste 6. Global perspective Africa, the internet and human rights, CH Powell and Tobias Schonwetter The approach of North American courts towards the internet, David P. Stewart Asian human rights law, jurisprudence, and practices towards the internet, Satoshi Yokodaido Latin American human rights law jurisprudence and practices towards the internet, Oscar Raúl Puccinelli The Russian perspective on human rights protection online, Dmitry Dedov