Litigating Free Speech Cases in the African Regional Courts

Published: April 27, 2017, 6:01 p.m.

b'Please join us for a discussion with Nani Jansen Reventlow, Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, on the topic of regional courts in Africa and freedom of expression cases in particular. As the head of the Media Legal Defence Initiative\\u2019s global litigation practice, Reventlow led litigation that resulted in the first freedom of expression judgments at the African Court on Human and Peoples\\u2019 Rights and the East African Court of Justice. She has also led cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and several African regional courts.\\n\\nFor more about this event, visit:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2016/11/Jansen%20Reventlow'