The Science of Chilling Effects

How can we know if a particular law or policy has chilled people’s free expression? Can we use social science approaches to study chilling effects?

This webinar, a conversation with social scientists and legal scholars, will focus on efforts to detect and measure chilling effects using scientific methods. Speakers will discuss their own work as well as other successful approaches, challenges to consider when designing a study, and how evidence produced by social science is evaluated in court.

This session is open to all. It is designed in part to offer information to scientists interested in studying chilling effects, and to establish stronger connections between those already doing so. The program will include ample time for Q&A with speakers.

Registration is required to attend.

Additional speakers to be announced.

Speakers

• J. Nathan Matias, Cornell University
• Jonathon Penney, Osgoode Hall Law School

Moderator

• Katy Glenn Bass, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University