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Hate Speech
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UK Human Rights Blog
The Weekly Round-up: Hate speech in the UK, asylum seekers in Diego Garcia, and Ukraine ratifies ICC Rome Statute
In UK news The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has published a report which found that black children are four times more likely to be strip searched…
Media Law Prof Blog
Beavers on Balancing Interests: Harmful Bans & Harmful Books @umlaw1854
Anna Beavers, University of Mississippi School of Law, has published Balancing Interests: Harmful Bans & Harmful Books at 2 We the People--Elon L. Const. L.J. 1 (2023). Here is the…
Michael Geist
Court Issues Injunction Against University of Toronto Encampment on Trespass Grounds, Finds “No Doubt That Some of the Speech on the Exterior of the Encampment Rises to the Level of Hate Speech”
Ontario Superior Court of Justice Markus Koehnen issued his much anticipated ruling involving the encampment at the University of Toronto late yesterday, granting the University its requested order that can…
alastairlawrie
Submission to Inquiry into Right Wing Extremist Movements in Australia
Senate Legal and Constitution Affairs Committee Submitted via email: legcon.sen@aph.gov.au Friday 5 April 2024 To the Committee Inquiry into Right Wing Extremist Movements in Australia Thank you for the opportunity to…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Tax Agency Warns Charity for “Inflammatory and Divisive” Sermon
Warning: This is video is seriously offensive.We might all be camping in tents and up in arms if the IRS monitored speeches and religious sermons to make sure tax exemption…
PrawfsBlawg
Antisemitic Images on Campus
Main Monday, April 22, 2024Antisemitic Images on CampusMy new essay for The Hill addresses recent antisemitic incidents on American campuses. Here is the gist:Free antisemitic speech is still antisemitic and…
Religion Clause
European Court: Failure To Consider Antisemitic Nature of Threats Violated Woman’s Rights Under European Convention
In Allouche v. France, (ECHR, April 11, 2024) (full text in French), the European Court of Human Rights in a Chamber Judgment awarded damages of 15,000 Euros plus costs and…
Michael Geist
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 198: Richard Moon on the Return of the Section 13 Hate Speech Provision in the Online Harms Act
The public debate surrounding Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, has focused primarily on Human Rights Act and Criminal Code reforms. The Human Rights Act changes include the return of…
The Right Coast
Donald Trump s Insatiable Bloodlust DNyuz
But Trump embraces Hitleresque phrases to stir racial hatred. He has talked about immigrants poisoning the blood of our country. Last month, he called migrants animals, saying, I don t…
The Right Coast
JK Rowling to Scottish Speech Fascists: ‘Arrest Me’ HotAir
JK Rowling is challenging the Scottish police to arrest her. Her crime? Hate speech is now illegal in Scotland after a new law went into effect. And her Twitter thread calling…