From the Department of: “Women Law Profs Don’t Know Anything About Hate Speech”

Columbia Law School division. This lecture series is advertising this speaker line up:

‘Hate Speech’ and Incitement to Violence

This workshop series is being convened by Professor Kendall Thomas and Lecturer-in-Law Peter Molnar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University.

Monday, February 9, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Professor C. Edwin Baker of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
“Hate Speech”

Monday, February 16, 2009
WJW 600, 12:15 – 1:40pm
Professor Monroe Price, Director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
“Orbiting Hate? Satellite Transponders and Free Expression”

Monday, February 23, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Peter Molnar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies, Central European University
“Towards Improved Law and Policy on ‘Hate Speech’ – The ‘Clear and Present Danger’ Test in Hungary”

Monday, March 23, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Professor Robert Post of Yale Law School
“Hate Speech”

Monday, April 13, 2009
WJW 600, 12:15 – 1:40pm
Professor Arthur Jacobson of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Thursday, April 16, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Professor Frederick Schauer of   the University of Virginia

Monday, April 20, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Professor Michel Rosenfeld of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Monday, April 27, 2009
WJW 600, 4:15 – 5:45pm
Professor Irwin Cotler, Member of the Canadian Parliament, Former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada, Professor of Law (on leave) McGill University

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Via a blogroll member who notes this particularly appalling given the fact that most of the victims of ‘incitement to violence’ are FEMALE.

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