Regardless of Frontiers

Will freedom of expression survive the twenty-first century? Bollinger and Callamard offer an essential primer on how the interpretation, violation, and defense of this core human right continue to evolve. In each essay, top experts address specific challenges and opportunities. This volume is required reading for anybody working to defend and protect free speech in today’s digitally networked world. -- Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
This collection establishes a rigorous idea of global norms of freedom of expression. Headed by Lee C. Bollinger and Agnès Callamard, it is a rallying cry for continued attention to global norms of freedom of expression and a celebration of the global project of freedom of expression at Columbia. -- Monroe Price, author of Free Expression, Globalism, and the New Strategic Communication
At this existential moment when freedom of expression is under attack globally and the law weaponized to silence independent journalism, we need an authoritative public record of how free speech is protected as a universal human right and to be reminded of its many defenders globally. That’s what this volume provides: a sweeping, rigorous, and balanced compendium of the nature and extent of these protections and their key actors, grounded clearly in diverse viewpoints—a vibrant reminder that freedom of speech is ours to defend or lose. -- Maria A. Ressa, CEO and executive editor, Rappler
Regardless of Frontiers explores the extent to which the global norms, values, and systems around free expression are under duress. And it is a timely reminder of the major implications, set against the background of how the free flow of information is facilitated in practice. -- Jonathan Peters, University of Georgia, press freedom correspondent for the Columbia Journalism Review
U.S. teachers and researchers who are beginning to explore international communication law more closely and those who have been doing so for a while will learn a great deal from this book, including the ways that “soft power,” often undervalued in U.S. law, has considerable influence internationally. * Journalism and Mass Communication Educator *
Essential reading for anyone interested in what the human rights system has to offer in navigating the many critical challenges to freedom of expression in the contemporary world order. * Human Rights Quarterly *
The book would make a good supplemental text for graduate media law courses, or even the primary text in a global media law class. * Journalism and Mass Communication Educator *