Review of: Alex Brown, Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination

International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs (2018)

9 Pages Posted: 5 Mar 2019

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Eric Heinze

Queen Mary University of London, School of Law

Date Written: 2018

Abstract

In Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination thoughtfully and rigorously explores arguments both for and against hate speech bans. However, his analysis retains a fundamentally liberal paradigm: his arguments in favour of free speech derive from the strengths of liberalism, while his pro-ban arguments draw upon liberalism’s broader shortcomings. Although he certainly takes note of the role of free speech within democratic processes, he fails to construe free speech as irreducibly constitutive of those processes, instead simply collapsing free speech into the object of one among many liberal rights.

Keywords: free speech, First Amendment, legal theory, civil rights, civil liberties, democracy

JEL Classification: Z19

Suggested Citation

Heinze, Eric, Review of: Alex Brown, Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination (2018). International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs (2018), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3339828

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