Buch, Englisch, 720 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1068 g
Buch, Englisch, 720 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1068 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-960179-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies. However, democracies can differ significantly when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, for instance, the commitment to free speech under the First Amendment has been held by the Supreme Court to protect the public expression of the most noxious racist ideology and hence to render unconstitutional even narrow restrictions on
hate speech. In contrast, governments have been accorded considerable leeway to restrict racist and other extreme expression in almost every other democracy, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. This book considers the legal responses of various liberal democracies
towards hate speech and other forms of extreme expression, and examines the following questions:
What accounts for the marked differences in attitude towards the constitutionality of hate speech regulation?
Does hate speech regulation violate the core free speech principle constitutive of democracy?
Has the traditional US position on extreme expression justifiably not found favour elsewhere?
Do values such as the commitment to equality or dignity legitimately override the right to free speech in some circumstances?
With contributions from experts in a range of disciplines, this book offers an in-depth examination of the tensions that arise between democracy's promises.
Zielgruppe
Academics, scholars, and advanced students of Human Rights; Comparative Human Rights; Freedom of Information & Freedom of Speech; Media, Information, & Communication Industries; Censorship; Extreme Speech & Hate Speech
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
- Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
- Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword by Ronald Dworkin
James Weinstein and Ivan Hare: General Introduction: Free Speech, Democracy, and the Suppression of Extreme Speech Past and Present
Part I: Introduction and Background
1: Dieter Grimm: Freedom of Speech in a Globalized World
2: James Weinstein: Extreme Speech, Public Order, and Democracy: Lessons from The Masses
3: Ivan Hare: Extreme Speech under International and Regional Human Rights Standards
4: James Weinstein: An Overview of American Free Speech Doctrine and its Application to Extreme Speech
5: Sir David Williams QC: Hate Speech in the United Kingdom: An Historical Overview
6: Maleiha Malik: Extreme Speech and Liberalism
Part II: Hate Speech
7: Robert Post: Hate Speech
8: C. Edwin Baker: Autonomy and Hate Speech
9: Stephen J. Heyman: Hate Speech, Public Discourse, and the First Amendment
10: Eric Heinze: Wild-West Cowboys versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems in Comparative Approaches to Hate Speech
11: L.W. Sumner: Incitement and the Regulation of Hate Speech in Canada: A Philosophical Analysis
12: Pascal Mbongo: Hate Speech, Extreme Speech, and Collective Defamation in French Law
13: Peter Molnar: Towards Improved Law and Policy on 'Hate Speech'- The 'Clear and Present Danger' Test in Hungary
14: Eric Heinze: Cumulative Jurisprudence and Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation and Analogies to Disability, Age, and Obesity
Part III: Incitement to Religious Hatred and Related Topics
15: Ivan Hare: Blasphemy and Incitement to Religious Hatred: Free Speech Dogma and Doctrine
16: Ian Cram: The Danish Cartoons, Offensive Expression, and Democratic Legitimacy
17: Amnon Reichman: Criminalizing Religiously Offensive Satire: Free Speech, Human Dignity, and Comparative Law
Part IV: Religious Speech and Expressive Conduct That Offend Secular Values
18: Carolyn Evans: Religious Speech that Undermines Gender Equality
19: Ian Leigh: Homophobic Speech, Equality Denial, and Religious Expression
20: Dominic McGoldrick: Extreme Religious Dress: Perspectives on Veiling Controversies
21: John Finnis: Endorsing Discrimination between Faiths: A Case of Extreme Speech?
Part V: Incitement to and Glorification of Terrorism
22: Eric Barendt: Incitement to, and Glorification of, Terrorism
23: Tufyal Choudhury: The Terrorism Act 2006: Discouraging Terrorism
24: Sara Savage and Jose Liht: Radical Religious Speech: the Ingredients of a Binary World View
Part VI: Holocaust Denial
25: David Fraser: 'On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Nazi': Some Comparative Aspects of Holocaust Denial on the WWW
26: Michael Whine: Expanding Holocaust Denial and Legislation Against It
27: Dieter Grimm: The Holocaust Denial Decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
28: Patrick Weil: The Politics of Memory: Bans and Commemorations
Part VII: Governmental and Self-Regulation of the Media
29: David Edgar: Shouting Fire: From the Nanny State to the Heckler's Veto: The New Censorship and How to Counter It
30: David J. Bodney: Extreme Speech and American Press Freedoms
31: Jacob Rowbottom: Extreme Speech and the Democratic Functions of the Mass Media