The Legal Challenges of Social Media

Edited by David Mangan, Department of Law, Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland and Lorna E. Gillies, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Contents:

Foreword
Sir Edward Garnier QC

1. Introduction
David Mangan and Lorna E. Gillies

A. Social media and the law
2. Mapping the rule of law for the internet
Andrew D. Murray

B Public order in a virtual space
3. Crime and communication: do legal controls leave enough space for freedom of expression
Jacob Rowbottom

4. Press regulation in a converging environment
Ian Walden

5. Contempt of court and new media
Daithí Mac Síthigh 

6. Social media: it is not just about Article 10
Lorna Woods

C Private law responses to social media
7. What is a joke? Mapping the path of a speech complaint on social networks
Emily B. Laidlaw

8. Social media, sporting figures and the regulation of morality
Robin D. Barnes and Paul Wragg

9. Post-mortem social media: law and Facebook after death
Edina Harbinja

10. Social media in the workplace
David Mangan

11. An unwholesome layer cake: intermediary liability in English defamation and data protection law
Andrew Scott

D Cross border regulation of virtual space
12. Getting the balance right: human rights in residual jurisdiction rules of English courts for cross-border torts via social media
Lorna E. Gillies

13. Choice of law in defamation and the regulation of free speech on social media: nineteenth century law meets twenty-first century problems
Alex Mills

Index