Volume 35, issue 6, December 2022

Special Issue: Free Speech vs. Hate Speech

Issue editors: Jacob Mchangama, Natalie Alkiviadou


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List of articles in the issue:

  1. Editorial Introduction

Authors

    • Jacob Mchangama
    • Natalie Alkiviadou

  1. Liberating Expression: Contemporary European Challenges

    Authors

    • Natalie Alkiviadou

  2. A Model for Free Speech

    Authors

    • Daniel Weston

  3. Laughing Matters: Humor, Free Speech and Hate Speech at the European Court of Human Rights

    Authors

    • Alberto Godioli
    • Jennifer Young
    • Brando Matteo Fiori

  4. Dismissals for Social Media Hate Speech in South Africa: Animalistic Dehumanisation and the Circulation of Racist Words and Images

    Authors

    • René Cornish
    • Kieran Tranter

  5. Toothless Rhetoric or Strategic Polemic? A Textual and Contextual Analysis of Japan’s Hate Speech Law

    Authors

    • Richard Powell

  6. Sexist Hate Speech and the International Human Rights Law: Towards Legal Recognition of the Phenomenon by the United Nations and the Council of Europe

    Authors

    • Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska
    • Grażyna Baranowska
    • Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias

  7. Covert Hate Speech, Conspiracy Theory and Anti-semitism: Linguistic Analysis Versus Legal Judgement

    Authors

    • Fabienne Baider

  8. Rise of Conspiracy Theories in the Pandemic Times

    Authors

    • Elżbieta Kużelewska
    • Mariusz Tomaszuk

  9. COVID Masks as Semiotic Expressions of Hate

    Authors

    • Rob Kahn

  10. Fighting the Fake: A Forensic Linguistic Analysis to Fake News Detection

    Authors

    • Rui Sousa-Silva

  11. The ‘Spaghettification’ of Performativity Across Cultural Boundaries: The Trans-culturality/Trans-Spatiality of Digital Communication As an Event Horizon for Speech Acts

    Authors

    • Mario Ricca

  12. Philosophie du Droit et Droit Positif: La Problématique de L’égalité

    Authors

    • Pierre Moor

  13. Langues et rapports de force. Les enjeux politiques de la traduction. Sous la direction de Céline Letawe, Christine Pagnoulle et Patricia Willson, Presses Universitaire de Liège 2021, 178 p. Collection Truchements

    Authors

    • Mate Paksy

  14. Review: Mónica López Lerma, Sensing Justice Through Contemporary Spanish Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). 183 Pages

    Authors

    • Marco Wan

  15. Law and Culture : Reconceptualization and Case Studies Law and Visual Jurisprudence LVJ, Volume 5

    Authors

    • Rafif Zarea
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Jacob Mchangama is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech. He is also a research professor at Vanderbilt University and a Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

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Natalie Alkiviadou is a Senior Research Fellow at The Future of Free Speech. Her research interests lie in the freedom of expression, the far-right, hate speech, hate crime, and non-discrimination.