Topic
Hate Speech
337 published works
Legal Profession Blog
Illinois Bar Charges Abusive Behavior
The Illinois Administrator has filed a disciplinary complaint alleging a series of incidents involving the accused attorney. One set of alleged facts:On February 10, 2008, while in a public park…
Media Law Prof Blog
German Appellate Court Reverses Lower Court Decision on English Language Nazi Slogan
The Federal Court of Justice (Germany) has ruled that the German law against printing Nazi slogans applies only to printing them in German. It overturned a lower court ruling against…
Media Law Prof Blog
Racial and Religious Hate Speech Under the Singaporean Constitution
Zhong Zewei, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, has published "Racial and Religious Hate Speech in Singapore: Reclaiming the Victim's Perspective," in Singapore Law Review (2009). Here is the…
Media Law Prof Blog
Reconsidering the Regulation of Hate Speech
Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University of Chicago, School of Law, has published "Dignity and Speech: The Regulation of Hate Speech in a Democracy," in volume 44 of the Wake Forest Law…
Media Law Prof Blog
Freedom of Speech in the Spanish Criminal Code
Pablo Salvador-Coderch and Antoni Rubi-Puig, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Law, have published Genocide Denial and Freedom of Speech Pablo Salvador-Coderch Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of LawAntoni Rubi-Puig Universitat…
Media Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment and Hate Speech
Steven J. Heyman, Chicago-Kent College of Law, has published "Hate Speech, Public Discourse, and the First Amendment," forthcoming in Extreme Speech and Democracy (Ivan Hare and James Weinstein eds.; Oxford…
Media Law Prof Blog
Ofcom Checks Out Use of Term Used During ITV Broadcast
Ofcom is investigating whether a journalist's use of the word "pikey"--slang for "gypsy"--violated the agency's broadcast code. Martin Brundle used the term while doing an interview with Bernie Ecclestone on…
The Right Coast
He ought to be illegalMike Rappaport
Mark Steyn is such a great essayist -- combining amazing insight with devastating wit -- that you could almost sympathize with the desire of some to have the Canadian Human…
PropertyProf Blog
Civil Rights Owner v. KKK Life Tenant
By propertyprof
From CNN.com:A black civil rights activist is fighting to close a store that sells KKK robes and T-shirts emblazoned with racial slurs. David Kennedy is confident he can make it…
ImmigrationProf Blog
NCLR Calls for an End to Coded Hate Speech Bashing Latina/os/Immigrants
The N.Y. Times blog reports that the head of the country’s largest Latino civil rights organization called on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News to stop providing a forum for pundits…