Includes bibliographical references and index.

Freedom of speech in a globalized world / Dieter Grimm -- Extreme speech, public order, and democracy : lessons from The masses / James Weinstein -- Extreme speech under international and regional human rights standards / Ivan Hare -- An overview of American free speech doctrine and its application to extreme speech / James Weinstein -- Hate speech in the United Kingdom : an historical overview / David Williams -- Extreme speech and liberalism / Maleiha Malik -- Hate speech / Robert Post -- Autonomy and hate speech / C. Edwin Baker -- Hate speech, public discourse, and the First Amendment / Stephen J. Heyman -- Wild-west cowboys versus cheese-eating surrender monkeys : some problems in comparative approaches to hate speech / Eric Heinze -- Incitement and the regulation of hate speech in Canada : a philosophical analysis / L.W. Sumner -- Hate speech, extreme speech, and collective defamation in French law / Pascal Mbongo -- Towards improved law and policy on hate speech-the 'clear and present danger' test in Hungary / Peter Molnar -- Cumulative jurisprudence and hate speech : sexual orientation and analogies to disability, age, and obesity / Eric Heinze -- Blasphemy and incitement to religious hatred : free speech dogma and doctrine / Ivan Hare -- The Danish cartoons, offensive expression, and democratic legitimacy / Ian Cram -- Criminalizing religiously offensive satire : free speech, human dignity, and comparative law / Amnon Reichman -- Religious speech that undermines gender equality / Carolyn Evans.

Homophobic speech, equality denial, and religious expression / Ian Leigh -- Extreme religious dress : perspectives on veiling controversies / Dominic McGoldrick -- Endorsing discrimination between faiths : a case of extreme speech? / John Finnis -- Incitement to and glorification of terrorism / Eric Barendt -- The Terrorism Act 2006 : discouraging terrorism / Tufyal Choudhury -- Radical religious speech : the ingredients of a binary world view / Sara Savage and Jose Liht -- 'On the internet, nobody knows you're a nazi' : some comparative aspects of holocaust denial on the WWW / David Fraser -- Expanding holocaust denial and legislation against it / Michael Whine -- The holocaust denial decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany / Dieter Grimm -- The politics of memory : bans and commemorations / Patrick Weil -- Shouting fire from the nanny state to the heckler's veto : the new censorship and how to counter it / David Edgar -- Extreme speech and American press freedoms / David J. Bodney -- Extreme speech and the democratic functions of the mass media / Jacob Rowbottom.