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DESCRIPTION:Contemporary\nliberal democracies face a difficult challenge wh
 en drawing the line between\nprotecting free speech and punishing hate spe
 ech. Nowhere is this truer than in\nFrance\, where laws have assumed an ac
 ute significance in the wake of the\nJanuary 2015 Charlie Hebdo and Hyper 
 Casher massacres. This paper offers\na unique perspective on how France ha
 ndles hate speech by drawing on evidence\nfrom an original dataset compris
 ing every decision taken by the French Court of\nCassation regarding racis
 t hate speech between passage of its foundational 1972\nantiracism law and
  the end of 2012. The data demonstrate that the high court is\nmuch more l
 ikely to side with restricting allegedly racist speech when it\ntargets pr
 ototypical minority groups than when it targets majority groups such\nas C
 atholics\, Christians\, whites\, and “French.” To understand why\, I apply
  a\ntheoretically-oriented\, mixed-method approach that uses both cross-ca
 se\ncorrelational analysis and within-case process tracing analysis. This 
 project\ncontributes to an understanding of hate speech rulings in France\
 , of hate\nspeech adjudication beyond France\, and to the judicial behavio
 r literature more broadly.
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SUMMARY:Sawyer Law and Politics Program: Erik Bleich
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p></p><p>Contemporary\nliberal democra
 cies face a difficult challenge when drawing the line between\nprotecting 
 free speech and punishing hate speech. Nowhere is this truer than in\nFran
 ce\, where laws have assumed an acute significance in the wake of the\nJan
 uary 2015 <i>Charlie Hebdo</i> and Hyper Casher massacres. This paper offe
 rs\na unique perspective on how France handles hate speech by drawing on e
 vidence\nfrom an original dataset comprising every decision taken by the F
 rench Court of\nCassation regarding racist hate speech between passage of 
 its foundational 1972\nantiracism law and the end of 2012. The data demons
 trate that the high court is\nmuch more likely to side with restricting al
 legedly racist speech when it\ntargets prototypical minority groups than w
 hen it targets majority groups such\nas Catholics\, Christians\, whites\, 
 and “French.” To understand why\, I apply a\ntheoretically-oriented\, mixe
 d-method approach that uses both cross-case\ncorrelational analysis and wi
 thin-case process tracing analysis. This project\ncontributes to an unders
 tanding of hate speech rulings in France\, of hate\nspeech adjudication be
 yond France\, and to the judicial behavior literature more broadly.</p><p>
 </p><p></p>
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