Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Contours of International Human Rights Law

ISGAP

Speaker: Susan Benesch Affiliation: Senior Fellow and Project Director, World Policy Institute Title: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the Contours of International Human Rights Law Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA Date: November 28, 2012 Description: Susan Benesch speaks about how to understand, classify and respond to various forms of hate speech that have become increasingly evident around the world. Benesch examines three primary questions: 1) How can we understand or classify these forms of inflammatory speech in the doctrinal contours of International Human Rights Law? 2) What can this law do to litigate the danger of these forms of speech? 3) Are there other remedies that should be considered?