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The Role of Transnational Judicial Dialogue in Shaping Transnational Speech: International Jurisdictional Conflicts in Hate Speech and Defamation Law

Document Type

Book Section

Language

English (en)

Publication Date

2008

Publication Title

Progress in International Law

Abstract

Reading Harvard Professor Manley O. Hudson’s lectures at the University of Idaho from nearly a century ago, one is struck by the profound sense of optimism with which international lawyers of his era greeted the launch of the great liberal internationalist experiment. Hudson spoke for a generation of scholars and policymakers in stating his firm belief that institution building was the key to the lasting worldwide peace that had eluded previous generations. Institutions were, in his words, “the great simplifiers of human problems.” To Hudson, the founding of the League of Nations and the concomitant growth of a complex web of international institutions marked “the beginning of a new era in organized international life.” And his generation would be remembered, Hudson was convinced, “for the progress which we have made in organizing the world for co-operation and peace.”

Keywords

International Law, Transnational Law, Jurisdictional Conflicts, Defamation, Hate Speech

Publication Citation

Melissa A. Waters, The Role of Transnational Judicial Dialogue in Shaping Transnational Speech: International Jurisdictional Conflicts in Hate Speech and Defamation Law, in Progress in International Law 473–490 (Russell A. Miller & Rebecca M. Bratspies eds., 2008)

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