Lecturers
Luke M. Milligan is a Professor of Law and Director of the Ordered Liberty Program at the University of Louisville. Professor Milligan teaches Jurisprudence and a range of public law offerings, including Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Constitutional Law. His research focuses on the interrelations of natural law and political authority, with an emphasis on government searches and seizures. Milligan has been named Professor of the Year and winner of the Helfat prize for legal scholarship. In past years, he’s been a visiting professor at Emory University, as well as several universities abroad — KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Mainz (Germany), and Turku (Finland). Earlier in his career he practiced law at the Washington, D.C., law firm Williams & Connolly. Co-director of the Summer School.
Russell L. Weaver is a Professor of Law and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville. Professor Weaver is prolific author who has written hundreds of books and articles over the last 39 years. In addition, he has been asked to speak at law schools and conferences around the world, and has been a visiting professor at law schools in France, Hungary, Portugal, England, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, Australia and Canada. Professor Weaver is particularly noted for his work in the constitutional law area, especially his writings on free speech. In addition to authoring "From Gutenberg to the Internet: Free Speech, Advancing Technology and the Implications for Democracy" (2nd ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2019) and "The Right to Speak Ill" (Carolina Academic Press, 2006) he served as a consultant to the constitutional drafting commissions of Belarus and Kyrghyzstan and as a commentator on the Russian Constitution.
András Koltay is the Pro-Rector and professor of the University of Public Service (Budapest). He is president of the Hungarian Infocommunications Authority. He is also a lecturer at Pázmány Péter Catholic University Faculty of Law and Political Sciences in Budapest, Hungary since 2002. In 2018, he was appointed as professor of law. He received LL.M. degree in public law at the University College London in 2006, and PhD degree in law at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2008. He attended the human rights course of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg in 2003. His principal research has been concerned with freedom of speech, personality rights and media regulations, but he also deals with other constitutional questions. He is the author of more than 350 publications, and numerous monographs on freedom of speech; in English: Freedom of Speech – the Unreachable Mirage (Wolters Kluwer 2013), The Troubled Relationship between Religions and the State. Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion (Whitelocke 2017) and New Media and Freedom of Expression (Hart 2019). He has been a speaker in more than 125 conferences in several countries.
Balázs Bartóki-Gönczy is associate professor and head of department of Ludovika University of Public Service where he is director of the Space Law and Policy Institute. He has obtained Hungarian and French legal diplomas, specialized in telecommunications and space law. He helds an MBA (University Lyon 3) and a PhD degree (Péter Pázmány Catholic University). His principal research has been concerned with space law, telecommunications law ans regulatory questions of online media platforms. Co-director of the Summer School.
Zsolt Ződi is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Information Society at Ludovika University of Public Service. He earned a law degree at the University of Miskolc, PhD at the University of Pécs, and habilitated at the Eötvös Loránd University. Before his academic career he has worked in professional legal publishing for 20 years as an editor, publisher and publishing director. From 2013 he taught in Eötvös Loránd University and Corvinus University of Budapest. His current research areas are the regulation of internet platforms and artificial intelligence. He is author of three monographs and more than 110 professional articles.
Ágnes Veszelszki, PhD, is a linguist, economist, and communication researcher. She is an associate professor and the head of the Department of Digital Media and Communication at the Ludovika University of Public Service. She works as a senior researcher at the Institute of Media Studies of the Hungarian Infocommunications Authority. She is the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Filológia.hu. Previously, she worked as a lecturer at several universities and colleges (Corvinus University of Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Metropolitan University, Mathias Corvinus Collegium and Szent Ignác Jesuit College). Her main research interests are: forms of audiovisual manipulation, deepfake; communication effects of artificial intelligence; science communication. Her recent books include Digilect. The Impact of Infocommunication Technology on Language (2017); Deepfake: The Unreal Reality (with Petra Aczél, 2023). She is the author of nearly 200 scientific publications, with a Hirsch index of 18. She gives lectures in Hungarian, English and German.
Gábor Kovács PhD is an applied linguist, communication scientist and media researcher. He is an associate professor at the Department of Digital Media and Communication at the Ludovika University of Public Service. He has also lectured at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) and the University of Pannonia (Veszprém) and worked as faculty at the Corvinus University of Budapest. Over the past two decades he has taught courses on topics such as the psychology of communication, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, research methodology, data analysis and statistical modelling. His primary field of interest is the role of cognitive processes in communication, including language learning and language use. In his PhD thesis, he studied the role of human memory systems in second language acquisition, and he is also known as the developer and programmer of a widely used digital test battery to assess multiple aspects of working memory functioning (MAMUT), a project for which he received the János Bolyai Research Grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. More recently, he has been involved in a range of research projects focusing on stereotypical representations of older people in news programmes, the role of human values in the development of environmentally-friendly behaviours, as well as stochastic relationships between sound and meaning in natural languages.
Michael M. Epstein is Professor of Law, Director of Entertainment and Media Law Concentration and Supervising Editor of the Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law. He studies English and History in Columbia College, then started law. While being a graduate student, he received his first teaching assignments in the University of Michigan's Departments of Anthropology, Communication, English Language and Literature and in the Program in American Culture. He later taught courses on media law and theory, communication and society, and television industry and regulation at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Professor Epstein joined the Southwestern faculty in 1999. Teaching in the areas of business, entertainment and media law, he also created and supervises Southwestern's Amicus Project Practicum and assists students in arranging entertainment law externships. He is the Supervising Editor of the Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law, and serves as a faculty advisor to the Media Law Forum and the Entertainment and Sports Law Society. Professor Epstein's most recent book is Mass Media Law: A Survey of Content and Culture (2014). He has published numerous articles in the areas of communications law, access to electronic media, television industry and entertainment culture.
Philippe Achilleas is Vice-Dean of the Faculty Jean Monnet (University Paris-Sud 11, France). He is director of the Institute of Space and Telecommunications Law and of the Master’s Degree in Law of Space Activities and Telecommunications at the University Paris-Sud 11. He obtained his degree of Doctorate in International and European Law - with honors, from University Panthéon - Sorbonne (Paris I). Dr. Achilleas has taught various subjects, including space and telecommunications law as well as International and European Law at numerous universities in France and in other countries. He is the author of numerous publications in various subjects related to International and European Law, Space Law and Space Policy, and Communications Law and Policy. He is also consultant for space companies and spaces agencies.