"For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America’s colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society. Drawing on a decade of experience battling for freedom of speech on campus, First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff re…
Free speech: a very short introduction
Overview: Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full attention to one of the …
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.
"Journalists face constant intimidation. Whether it takes the extreme form of beheadings, death threats, government censorship or simply political correctness?it casts a shadow over their ability to tell a story. No one knows this better than Flemming Rose, the editor at the Dan…
When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (Viby, Denmark) published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammad in 2005, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech. The paper's culture editor, Flemming Rose, defended the decision to print the 12 d…
The proliferation of pornography and hate speech in contemporary democratic cultures threatens the liberal ideal of a marketplace of ideas, unhampered by state regulation of speech. Pornographic and hate speech, because it threatens to silence the competing speech of women and m…
"Introduction Yuji Nasu & Shinji Higaki Countries around the world have been commonly troubled with the problem of hate speech, but their responses vary. Constitutional law scholars often use two models for analysis, which are the US model that hesitates to regulate hate speech …