Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
Jeremy Waldron and James Weinstein have opened up a promising line of inquiry regarding the legitimacy and propriety of hate speech regulation. In doing so, they have succeeded in reinvigorating a subject that had grown academically formulaic even while becoming alarmingly more salient politically and culturally. Together they have enriched our understanding with their specificity of argumentation, intellectual courage, fairminded attentiveness to critics and counter-arguments, comparative law perspective, and genuine originality of conception. I find that each has shown me at least one significant problem in the other’s analysis, a symmetry that I consider a tribute to both.
Disciplines
First Amendment | Law
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Recommended Citation
Vincent A. Blasi,
Hate Speech, Public Assurance, and the Civic Standing of Speakers and Victims,
32
Const. Comment.
585
(2017).
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