Scientific Talk - Seminar series
Title: The pervasive polarization induced by social media and the "echo chamber effecs” and its impact on Supreme and Constitutional Courts across the globe.
November 18, 2022 - from 3.00 PM to 4.30 PM (Italian time)
at AULA B - DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA E ASTRONOMIA UNIPD
Via Paolotti 9, 35131, Padova
Speaker: Moshe Cohen-Eliya is full professor of constitutional law at and the former President (2015- 2022) of the College of Law and Business (CLB), Israel. He is a council member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), the founder of the Israeli chapter of ICON-S, and the founding editor-in-chief of the law journal Law and Ethics of Human Rights. He is an expert in comparative constitutional law. His publications include “Proportionality and Constitutional Culture ” (CUP, 2013, with Iddo Porat) and articles in the American Journal of Comparative Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law, and University of Toronto Law Journal.
Abstract The Talk will focus on how Supreme and Constitutional Courts across the globe are affected by the pervasive polarization process that social media and the "echo chamber effect" trigger. Born as non-partisan fora to adjudicate rights and solve institutional clashes, Courts are increasingly seen as taking sides in social and political disputes. The Talk will track down the phenomenon and propose two types of solutions: depoliticization and balancing a political court.
