Neurobiological Legal Theory

Dehumanizing Hate Speech Facilitates Fascism
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-31799-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 163 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This book provides a remarkable synthesis of scholarship across diverse fields of inquiry, including jurisprudence, neuroscience, history, philosophy, psychology, biosemiotics, linguistics, the emerging field of artificial intelligence, and many others. Hate speech is proliferating in the United States and around the world, in the political arena and social media, fueling a rise of populist fascism that threatens rights based constitutional democracy. This book sheds light on how we think and work together, for good or ill. It illuminates a path forward for society to traverse to reach a more prosperous level of cooperative endeavor.

More specifically, it provides an incredibly timely and compelling argument for the need to legally regulate explicit dehumanizing rhetoric in our public discourse, particularly by political leaders. It explains how frequent passive exposure to such language disrupts the neurophysiologic mechanisms which produce healthy and adaptive empathy, empathy which is required for civilization to move forward.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murrow, Gail Bruner

Murrow, Richard W.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Preview of the Brain on Hate Speech.- Empathy Embodies Social and Legal “Equality”.- Neural Mechanisms of Empathy May Not Generate a Feeling of Empathy for the Dehumanized.- Dehumanized Perception May Be Encoded by Exposure to Dehumanizing Rhetoric.- Roberts’s Court’s Neuro-semantics.- AI May Breed Inequality: Both Social Bias and Income Inequality.- Conclusion: Final Observations and Recommendations.

Über Autor(innen)

Gail Bruner Murrow is an independent academic legal writer. After completing her J.D. she received an advanced degree (LLM) in law from the University of London where she studied legal history and theory, and human rights.  She is assisted by her husband, Professor Richard W. Murrow.

Richard W. Murrow , M.D., the Joseph and Hannah Baggett Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Their work has received worldwide attention and has been cited and quoted in official reports to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.