Amanda Jardine
Amanda Jardine is Lead Counsel for Content Compliance and Strategic Litigation at WMF. My work at the Foundation focuses primarily on impact litigation. Since its founding in 2003, the WMF has taken an active role in protecting the Wikimedia projects and the communities who edit them through thoughtful approaches to litigation. We have identified opportunities to file lawsuits, amicus briefs, and interventions in an effort to proactively create a legal environment in which the Wikimedia projects, movement, and Foundation can thrive.
In addition, I work with the rest of the legal team on a wide variety of other issues including content compliance and privacy.
Session
The Wikimedia Foundation’s participation in legal cases during 2024 involved cases both as a defendant and as an active effort through impact litigation (i.e., lawsuits that aim to bring legal change in the public interest). In this session we will discuss several of these impact litigation cases, and how that work has been reinforced through dynamic collaboration within the Movement. Join Amanda Jardine (Lead Counsel for Strategic Litigation, WMF), Ivan Martínez (President, Wikimedia México) and Michele Failla (Senior Legal and Political Advisor, Wikimedia Europe) as they discuss cases involving intellectual property, privacy, freedom of expression and intermediary liability. Learn more about how local chapters can work with WMF to protect these rights globally through legal advocacy.