Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law

Paul Cliteur is professor of jurisprudence at the University of Leiden. He has been visiting professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, and at Ghent University. He is the author of The Secular Outlook (2010) and coeditor of The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law (2016).Tom Herrenberg is a PhD candidate at Leiden Law School and a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford in 2016.

• Foreword Blasphemy: A Victimless Crime or a Crime in Search of a Victim? (Flemming Rose) 1. General Introduction (Paul Cliteur and Tom Herrenberg) 2. Blasphemy and the Law: The Fall and Rise of a Legal Non Sequitur (David Nash) 3. The English Law of Blasphemy: The "Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing Roar" (Ivan Hare) 4. On the Life and Times of the Dutch Blasphemy Law (1932–2014) (Paul Cliteur and Tom Herrenberg) 5. Death of a Princess (Paul Cliteur, Laetitia Houben and Michelle Slimmen) 6. Rushdie's Critics (Paul Cliteur and Tom Herrenberg) 7. John Stuart Mill's "If All Mankind Minus One" Tested in a Modern Blasphemy Case (Paul Cliteur, Tom Herrenberg & Bastiaan Rijpkema) 8. Religious Freedom and Blasphemy Law in a Global Context: The Concept of Religious Defamation (Mirjam van Schaik) 9. Blasphemy, Multiculturalism, and Free Speech in Modern Britain (Rumy Hasan)