Topic
Hate Speech
337 published works
ImmigrationProf Blog
No Harm, No Foul? Anti-Hmong Comments Set Off a Law School
The law school dean at the University of Wisconsin at Madison sent an e-mail message to students and faculty members last week apologizing for the hurt caused by a professor's…
Media Law Prof Blog
Ernest Zundel Gets Five Year Sentence
Ernest Zundel, the German citizen who lived in both Canada and the United States between the late 1950s and 2005, before Canada deported him to Germany, and published his views…
Media Law Prof Blog
Turkish Newspaper Editor Murdered
Turkish newspaper editor Hrant Dink, who spoke out about the deaths of Armenians during the last years of the Ottoman Empire, was murdered earlier today outside his office in Istanbul.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Rosie O’Donnell Mocks Chinese
Ask any Chinese (or for that matter Asian) American who has grown up in America. You get a lot of "Ching, Chong, Ching" kind of mocking on the playground or…
Media Law Prof Blog
David Irving on Trial in Austria for Holocaust Denial; Read What Deborah Lipstadt Has to Say About Her Onetime Courtroom Opponent
Historian Deborah Lipstadt thinks David Irving should not be on trial in Austria for his views on the Holocaust. Austria, like several other European nations, has laws that forbid denial…
Media Law Prof Blog
Appellate Court Upholds Dismissal of Charges Against Rappers
A French appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that the rap group Sniper did not break the law by performing songs during an April 2004 concert which contained…
Media Law Prof Blog
Ernst Zuendel On Trial in Germany For Inciting Racial Hatred; Trial Temporarily Halted
Holocaust denier Ernest Zuendel, who is on trial in Germany for inciting racial hatred and publishing neo-Nazi statements, will have to wait a few more days for proceedings to resume.…