Religious Speech, Hatred and LGBT Rights

Jeroen Temperman is Professor of International Law and Religion and Head of the Department of International and European Union Law at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Religion & Human Rights (Brill/Nijhoff) and a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief. He has authored, among other books, Corporate Religious Freedom and the Rights of Others (The Hague: Eleven International Publishing, 2019), Religious Hatred and International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) and State–Religion Relationships and Human Rights Law (Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, 2010) and edited Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) and The Lautsi Papers (Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, 2012). Key publications further include articles published in Human Rights Quarterly, Oxford Journal on Law and Religion, Netherlands Quarterly on Human Rights, Religion & Human Rights and Annuaire Droit et Religion.

Religious Speech, Hatred and LGBT Rights provides "an extensive and comprehensive overview of the legal framework and existing case law on a national, regional and international level, the author methodically answers ... questions [about the legal foundations for addressing homophobic and transphobic speech], and establishes a possible benchmark for balancing FORB and LGBTQIA+ rights". Sophia Ruth Urban, European Yearbook on Human Rights 2022 (pp. 795-796), Intersentia.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsTable of International LawTable of National LawTable of International CasesTable of National Cases1 Introduction1 Introduction2 Speech Conflicts3 Theoretical Framework4 Approach and Outline2 LGBT Rights as ‘Rights of Others’ in Extreme Speech Cases1 Introduction2 Sex and Sexual Orientation3 ‘Rights of Others’ in the ECHR Context4 Concluding Remarks3 The Emerging Duty to Prohibit Anti-LGBT Speech1 Introduction2 The Emerging ECHR Duty to Investigate Homophobic Hate Speech3 Inclusive Incitement Prohibitions: The Theory of Mainstreaming LGBT Protection4 Comparative Law5 Inclusive Incitement Prohibitions: The Emerging International Practice of Mainstreaming LGBT Protection6 Concluding Remarks4 The Scope of the Anti-LGBT Incitement Offence: Lessons from Comparative Law1 Introduction2 Inclusive Anti-Incitement Laws: Progress and Challenges3 Concluding Remarks5 Combating Anti-LGBT Incitement While Promoting Religious Freedom: Balances and Threshold Questions1 Introduction2 Against Sweeping Scripture Defences3 The Theory of Context4 The Application of Context5 Concluding Remarks6 ConclusionBibliography