Religious offence and human rights : the implications of defamation of religions - Langer, Lorenz, 1975- (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014)
The Danish cartoons revisited -- Legal responses to religious insult -- The current legal framework -- Invention of new alternatives : the concept of defamation of religions before and after the cartoons -- Defining defamation -- First principles : norms and norm-rationales -- Norm-rationales for the regulation of speech -- The religious rationale -- Religion, its defamation, and international law.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultat der Universitat Zurich, 2013), under the title: Law, religious offence and human rights : defamation of religions and the rationales of speech regulation.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Hate speech; Offenses against religion; Freedom of expression; Human rights and international law