Natalie Alkiviadou

Senior Research Fellow

Natalie Alkiviadou is a Senior Research Fellow at The Future of Free Speech. Her research interests lie in the freedom of expression, the far-right, hate speech, hate crime, and non-discrimination. She holds a PhD (Law) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has published three monographs, namely ‘The Far-Right in International and European Law’ (Routledge 2019), ‘Legal Challenges to the Far-right: Lessons from England and Wales’ (Routledge 2019) and ‘The Far-Right in Greece and the Law’ (Routledge 2022). She is the author of a forthcoming (2025) Routledge monograph on ‘Hate Speech and the European Court of Human Rights’ and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Hate Speech (Oxford University Press). She has published, reviewed, and edited journal articles on hate speech, free speech, and the far-right in a wide range of journals.

Natalie has extensive experience in working with civil society, educators, and public servants on human rights education and has participated in European actions such as the High-Level Group on Combatting Racism, Xenophobia, and Other Forms of Intolerance. In 2020, she chaired the United Nations Minority Forum on ‘Hate Speech, Social Media and Minorities.’  Natalie was the country researcher for the 2019 European Network against Racism report on Hate Crime and the 2022 report on structural racism. She has drafted handbooks, strategy papers, and shadow reports for projects funded by the Anna Lindh Foundation, the European Commission, and the European Youth Foundation on themes such as hate speech.

She is a trained mediator (conflict resolution and mediation) by OCN Northern Ireland and was the lead author of a handbook on social mediation.  Natalie was an international Fellow (2022/23) of the ISLC – Information Society Law Centre of the Università degli Studi di Milano. She is currently on the advisory board of the Forum for Humor and the Law (ForHum)  and DELIAH: Democratic Literacy and Humour.  She is a member of the International Press Institute.

      

 

Recent Commentary

Human Rights Here: Platform Liability, Hate Speech, and the Fundamental Right to Free Speech

International Press Institute: Media Freedom and Pluralism in The Republic of Cyprus: An Overview

Verfassungsblog: Prison for Fake News

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Publications

Book Chapter: The Future of Free Speech: Old Threats and New Challenges

Information & Communications Technology Law: Platform Liability, Hate Speech and The Fundamental Right to Free Speech

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law: Article 17 Free Speech and the Guillotine — The Countdown to Lenis v Greece

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Multimedia

The Lembit Öpik Show: Fake News Criminalization in Cyprus Threatens Free Speech

Webinar: Launch of French Language Global Case Law Database

Columbia University: Protecting Freedom of Expression through Comparative Global Case Law: Databases to Advance Rights

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