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Hate Speech
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Ohio Appellate Insights
Of Funerals, Protests, and Hate Speech
In Snyder v. Phelps (pdf), the U.S. Supreme Court shielded the Westboro Baptist Church from tort liability for its hateful picketing. “G-d Hates Fags.” “You’re Going to Hell.” “Thank G-d for Dead Soldiers.”…
Media Law Prof Blog
Is Hate Speech Legislation Needed In Kenya?
Stephen Thuku Mbaaro has published "Freedom of Expression and Public Order: Exploring the Need for Hate Speech Legislation in Kenya". Here is the abstract. Freedom of speech and expression is one…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Loyola Conference: Hate Speech, Incitement & Genocide
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The Loyola University Chicago Law Review is hosting a conference next Friday, April 8, titled Hate Speech, Incitement & Genocide.The line-up is terrific, with panels on Developing the Structure of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Pro-Immigrant Bloggers Counter Xenophobic Comments
From the Chicago Tribune:When the Tribune and Sun-Times recently posted stories dealing with immigration, Sara McElmurry saw a familiar dynamic take shape. The online comments following the pieces were heavily…
The Right Coast
Speech Codes in History Maimon Schwarzschild
Very interesting piece by Sam Schulman in the Weekly Standard, drawing parallels between the pro-censorship "anti-hate-speech" phenomenon in the Western world today and the gag laws against abolitionists in pre-Civil War America,…
Media Law Prof Blog
ISPs and Hate Speech
Danielle Keats Citron, Univesrsity of Maryland School of Law, and Helen L. Norton, University of Colorado School of Law, have published Intermediaries and Hate Speech: Fostering Digital Citizenship for Our…
Media Law Prof Blog
Dutch MP Can Challenge Charges In New Trial
Dutch MP Geert Wilders may challenge the charges of "anti-Islamic speech" pending against him, says a panel of judges. According to one judge, if his challenge succeeds, "the case will…
The Right Coast
Fighting the climate of hate by spreading vicious lies Tom Smith
Herr Doktor Professor Krugman should really be ashamed of himself, though, granted, that is not likely to happen. Take a gander at this latest missive from this leading voice of…
Media Law Prof Blog
Hate Speech and Latin American Norms and Legal Regimes
Tanya Kateri Hernandez, Fordham University School of Law, is publishing Hate Speech and The Language of Racism in Latin America: A Lens for Reconsidering Global Hate Speech Restrictions and Legislation…
ImmigrationProf Blog
“Ching Chong Chinaman” Alive and Well for Jeremy Lin
As a kid, I grew up with frequent taunts of "Ching Chong Chinaman." I learned to brush it off, because most of the taunts were from kids. But racist epithets…