Regulation of Speech in Multicultural Societies

Marcel Maussen is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include governance of religious and ethnic diversity, democratic theory, social inequality and normative theory. He recently co-edited a book on Colonial and post-colonial governance of Islam (2011) and a special issue in Comparative Education on religious schools in Europe.Ralph Grillo is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. He has written on migration, ethnicity and the governance of diversity, based on research in East Africa and Europe over many years. His current interests concern cultural diversity and legal processes in Europe, especially with respect to Muslims. He is co-editor of Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity (2009).

• 1. Introduction: Regulation of Speech in Multicultural Societies 2. Towards the Blasphemous Self: Constructing Societal Identity in Danish Debates on the Blasphemy Provision in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 3. The Global Battle over Religious Expression: Sweden's Åke Green Case in Local and Transnational Perspective 4. Hate Speech and Dialogue in Norway: Muslims ‘Speak Back’ 5. The Politicisation of Hate Speech Bans in the Twenty-first-century Netherlands: Law in a Changing Context 6. Fighting Words: What's Wrong with Freedom of Expression? 7. Freedom of Expression versus Racist Hate Speech: Explaining Differences Between High Court Regulations in the USA and Europe 8. Denial of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Jurisprudence of Human Rights Monitoring Bodies 9. Free Speech or Non-discrimination as Trump? Reflections on Contextualised Reasonable Balancing and Its Limits