Extreme speech and democracy

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hare, LindaJo.

Contributor:

Hare, Ivan, Contributor.

Weinstein, James, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of speech.

Hate speech.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lvii, 647 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title considers the constitutionality of hate speech regulation, and examines how liberal democracies have adopted fundamental differences in the way they respond to racist or extreme expressions.

Contents:

Freedom of speech in a globalized world / Dieter Grimm

Extreme speech, public order, and democracy : lessons from The masses / James Weinstein

Extreme speech under international and regional human rights standards / Ivan Hare

An overview of American free speech doctrine and its application to extreme speech / James Weinstein

Hate speech in the United Kingdom : an historical overview / David Williams

Extreme speech and liberalism / Maleiha Malik

Hate speech / Robert Post

Autonomy and hate speech / C. Edwin Baker

Hate speech, public discourse, and the First Amendment / Stephen J. Heyman

Wild-west cowboys versus cheese-eating surrender monkeys : some problems in comparative approaches to hate speech / Eric Heinze

Incitement and the regulation of hate speech in Canada : a philosophical analysis / L.W. Sumner

Hate speech, extreme speech, and collective defamation in French law / Pascal Mbongo

Towards improved law and policy on hate speech-the 'clear and present danger' test in Hungary / Peter Molnar

Cumulative jurisprudence and hate speech : sexual orientation and analogies to disability, age, and obesity / Eric Heinze

Blasphemy and incitement to religious hatred : free speech dogma and doctrine / Ivan Hare

The Danish cartoons, offensive expression, and democratic legitimacy / Ian Cram

Criminalizing religiously offensive satire : free speech, human dignity, and comparative law / Amnon Reichman

Religious speech that undermines gender equality / Carolyn Evans.

Homophobic speech, equality denial, and religious expression / Ian Leigh

Extreme religious dress : perspectives on veiling controversies / Dominic McGoldrick

Endorsing discrimination between faiths : a case of extreme speech? / John Finnis

Incitement to and glorification of terrorism / Eric Barendt

The Terrorism Act 2006 : discouraging terrorism / Tufyal Choudhury

Radical religious speech : the ingredients of a binary world view / Sara Savage and Jose Liht

'On the internet, nobody knows you're a nazi' : some comparative aspects of holocaust denial on the WWW / David Fraser

Expanding holocaust denial and legislation against it / Michael Whine

The holocaust denial decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany / Dieter Grimm

The politics of memory : bans and commemorations / Patrick Weil

Shouting fire from the nanny state to the heckler's veto : the new censorship and how to counter it / David Edgar

Extreme speech and American press freedoms / David J. Bodney

Extreme speech and the democratic functions of the mass media / Jacob Rowbottom.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-172067-4