Regulating Hate Speech: Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't

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Claudia E. Haupt

Northeastern University - School of Law; Yale University - Yale Information Society Project

Date Written: 2005

Abstract

Although the choice of free speech issues—campus speech codes, pornography, Holocaust revisionism, and the honor of German soldiers—seem unrelated at first sight, a comparable ongoing controversy is taking place in Germany and the United States in the area of free speech. The underlying question is whether free speech should be limited when the target of offensive speech is a group that has historically been discriminated against.

Keywords: free speech, hate speech, comparative constitutional law

JEL Classification: K00, K14, K19

Suggested Citation

Haupt, Claudia E., Regulating Hate Speech: Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't (2005). Boston University International Law Journal, Vol. 23, 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3168771

Claudia E. Haupt (Contact Author)

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Yale University - Yale Information Society Project ( email )

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