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Hate Speech


Level: Intermediate
Runtime: 63 minutes
Recorded Date: July 29, 2023
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Agenda

• What is hate speech?
• Historical scope, rationale and purpose/goal
• First amendment and hate speech history with SCOTUS/Federal Courts
        - Cross-Burning as speech and aggression
        - Funeral protests about gay military members
        - Profanity: racial slurs as trademarks to be used in commerce
        - Threats/Fighting words: Marching Nazis, racist leafletting
        - Campus restrictions on stigmatizing, slurring people because of characteristics
        - Imminent lawless actions/incitement
• Sidebar: Other countries and free speech interplay with hate speech

Runtime: 1 hour, 3 minutes
Recorded: July 29, 2023

For NY - Difficulty Level: For both newly admitted & experienced attorneys
For NY - Difficulty Level: Both newly admitted and experienced attorneys

Description

Everyone knows that the First Amendment safeguards freedom of speech from government intervention, but does that protection extend to speech that is hateful, offensive or incites violence? Peter Afrasiabi reviews the history of free speech protections in the United States — from famous cases involving flag burning, Nazi marches and anti-war protests — and carries it through to present day controversies including cyberstalkers who send messages threating violence and former President Donald Trump who made statements targeting protesters at a campaign rally.

This program was recorded on July 29th, 2023.

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Panelists

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Peter Afrasiabi

Founding Partner
One LLP

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One, LLP, and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law.

Peter graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Gould School of Law.


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