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		<title>Should galleries and museums display offensive art?</title>
		<link>http://www.cearta.ie/2011/01/should-galleries-and-museums-display-offensive-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have on this blog regularly discussed the extent to which offensive speech can be restricted. For example, there are many (many) posts on this blog on censorship and blasphemy. Furthermore, I have referred to the censorship of Guillaume Apollinaire (here and here), Carolina Gustavsson, Aldous Huxley, DH Lawrence (here, here and here), James Joyce, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blasphemy and the European Court of Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blasphemy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert A Kahn (University of St Thomas School of Law, Minnesota) A Margin of Appreciation for Muslims? Viewing the Defamation of Religions Debate Through Otto-Preminger-Institut v Austria (abstract; via SSRN):
Critics of the global standard outlawing defamation of religions often view the proposal as an effort by radical Muslims to deprive the liberal West of long-held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blasphemy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prior restraint]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is taken from the third paragraph of Milton&#8217;s Areopagitica. As I commented in an earlier post, one of the classic liberal justifications for freedom of expression was stated by John Milton (pitctured left) in his Areopagitica &#8211; A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicenc&#8217;d Printing, to the Parlament of England. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Curious Persistence of Blasphemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Patrick (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) has just made an important new paper &#8220;The Curious Persistence of Blasphemy&#8221; available via SSRN. 
Here is the abstract:
Despite expectations to the contrary, blasphemy laws and their modern-day counterparts persist in a surprising number of jurisdictions around the globe. This article discusses four examples: the &#8220;defamation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blasphemy from ancient Greece to modern Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.cearta.ie/2010/11/blasphemy-from-ancient-greece-to-modern-ireland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, I had the great good fortune to attend an enjoyable lecture presented by the, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. It was
Blasphemy: Historical anachronism or modern crime?
by Professor David Nash, Department of History, Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Blasphemy in Modern Britain 1789-present (Ashgate Publishing, 1999 &#124; Amazon) [...]]]></description>
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