Lorenz Langer

Religious Offence and Human Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy? This book examines this question.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781107612204
• ISBN-10: 1107612209
• Artikelnr.: 44825587

Autorenporträt

Lorenz Langer is a lecturer at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a Senior Research Fellow at its Centre for Research on Direct Democracy. He is also the managing editor of the Swiss Review of European and International Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. The Danish cartoons revisited
2. Legal responses to religious insult
3. The current legal framework
4. Invention of new alternatives? The concept of defamation of religions before and after the cartoons
5. Defining defamation
Part II: 6. First principles: norms and norm-rationales
7. Norm-rationales for the regulation of speech
8. The religious rationale
9. Religion, its defamation, and international law.