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The Freedom to Be Racist?
We love freedom. We hate racism. But what do we do when these values collide? In this wide-ranging book, Erik Bleich explores policies that the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and other liberal democracies have implemented when forced to choose between preserving freedom and combating racism. Bleich's comparative historical approach reveals that while most countries have increased restrictions on racist speech, groups and actions since the end of World War II, this trend has resembled a slow creep more than a slippery slope. Each country has struggled to achieve a balance between protecting freedom and reducing racism, and the outcomes have been starkly different across time and place. Building on these observations, Bleich argues that we should pay close attention to the specific context and to the likely effects of any policy we implement, and that any response should be proportionate to the level of harm the racism inflicts. Ultimately, the best way for societies to preserve freedom while fighting racism is through processes of public deliberation that involve citizens in decisions that impact the core values of liberal democracies.
Future of Blasphemy
Critical examination of the contemporary debates in Europe and the international community over 'incitement to religious hatred' and the 'defamation of religions'.
The Procedural and Organizational Law of the European Court of Justice
How should judges of the European Court of Justice be selected, who should participate in the Court's proceedings and how should judgments be drafted? These questions have remained blind spots in the normative literature on the Court. This book aims to address them. It describes a vast, yet incomplete transformation: Originally, the Court was based on a classic international law model of court organisation and decision-making. Gradually, the concern for the effectiveness of EU law led to the reinvention of its procedural and organisational design. The role of the judge was reconceived as that of a neutral expert, an inner circle of participants emerged and the Court became more hierarchical. While these developments have enabled the Court to make EU law uniquely effective, they have also created problems from a democratic perspective. The book argues that it is time to democratise the Court and shows ways to do this.
No Separation
Through a potent mix of authoritarianism, heterosexism, xenophobia, and ethnoracial nationalism, powerful illiberal Christian movements have upended liberal democracies in countries that were once seen as paradigms of secular governance. Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey offers new insight into the foundations of these movements, demonstrating how they emerge from the contradictions at the intersection of secularism and democracy. No Separation examines recent conflicts that link national identity, religion, and sexuality: debates over Muslim veiling practices in Germany, same-sex marriage in France, and migration and abortion in the United States. In each case, illiberal Christianities portray popu...
The Harm in Hate Speech
Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech, except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, the author argues that hate speech should be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. Causing offense, by depicting a religious leader as a terrorist in a newspaper cartoon, for example, is not the same as launching a libelous attack on a group's dignity, according to the author, and it lies outside the reach of law. But defamation of a minority group, through hate speech, undermines a public...
Five Legal Revolutions Since the 17th Century
This book presents an analysis of global legal history in Modern times, questioning the effect of political revolutions since the 17th century on the legal field. Readers will discover a non-linear approach to legal history as this work investigates the ways in which law is created. These chapters look at factors in legal revolution such as the role of agents, the policy of applying and publicising legal norms, codification and the orientations of legal writing, and there is a focus on the publicization of law. The author uses Herbert Hart’s schemes to conceive law as a human artefact or convention, being the union between primary rules of obligations and secondary rules conferring powers....
Brokering Europe
A new historical and sociological account for the broad definitional power of law in the European Union polity.
Extreme Speech and Democracy
A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies. However, democracies can differ significantly when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, for instance, the commitment to free speech under the First Amendment has been held by the Supreme Court to protect the public expression of the most noxious racist ideology and hence to render unconstitutional even narrow restrictions on hate speech. In contrast, governments have been accorded considerable leeway to restrict racist and other extreme expression in almost every other democracy, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. This...
Demokratie im Ausnahmezustand
Der Ausnahmezustand ist zum Dauerzustand geworden: In Frankreich, der Türkei, aber auch in Spanien, Großbritannien und in den USA sind in jüngerer Vergangenheit in Reaktion auf Anschläge, Streiks und Putschversuche die politischen Verhältnisse in Bewegung geraten. Angesichts von Krisen ziehen Regierungen immer mehr Kompetenzen an sich. Durch verfassungsrechtliche Regelungen verschiebt sich das machtteilige Gefüge der Demokratie. Es steht zu befürchten - so dieses Buch -, dass nicht die Krise selbst, sondern die Verhängung des Ausnahmezustandes und deren Folgen zur zentralen Herausforderung demokratischen Regierens in den nächsten Jahren wird.
نساء لبنان في سلك القضاء
صدر عن المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات كتاب نساء لبنان في سلك القضاء: تعزيز السائد وإهمال الهوامش، من تأليف عزة الحاج سليمان وعزة شرارة بيضون، ويقع في 247 صفحة، شاملةً ببليوغرافيا وفهرسًا عامًا. يحاول الكتاب الإجابة عن سؤال: هل يشكّل وجود نساء في سلك القضاء اللبناني إضافةً أم أنه مزيد من الشيء نفسه؟ وفي سبيل ذلك، ينطلق من ملاحظةٍ مفادها أن المنظمات النسائية تسعى إلى إبراز أهمية...
