Alberto Godioli

Alberto Godioli is Associate Professor at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on humor and free speech jurisprudence from an interdisciplinary perspective, and he is principal investigator of a five-year project on this topic (Humor in Court, NWO Vidi grant, 2022-2027). In 2022 he founded ForHum: Forum for Humor and the Law – a global platform for lawyers, humor scholars, practitioners, and anyone interested in humor, freedom of expression and related legal matters. In dialogue with experts from UNESCO, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, the European Court of Human Rights and ARTICLE 19 among others, Alberto has coordinated the publication of a toolkit for the judiciary titled What’s in a Joke? Assessing Humor in Free Speech Jurisprudence and Content Moderation (ForHum / Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, 2025). His other publications on the subject include the report Humor and Free Speech: A Comparative Analysis of Global Case Law (with Jennifer Young; Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, 2023) and the special issue Humor and the Law: The Difficulty of Judging Jests (co-edited with Brigitte Adriaensen, Andrew Bricker and Ted Laros, HUMOR, 2022).

Alberto Godioli joins the Paris IAS in September-October 2025 for a group research stay as part of the CAT collaborative program, in collaboration with the researchers Vicky Breemen, Andrew Bricker, Ana Pedrazzini and Tjeerd Royaards.

Sujets de recherche

Humor; Free Speech Jurisprudence.