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- Title
DEFENDING BLASPHEMY: EXPLORING RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION UNDER IRELAND'S BLASPHEMY LAW.
- Authors
Jacob, Katherine A. E.
- Abstract
This Note considers the blasphemy provisions of Ireland's Act and examines the Act's limitations on religious expression. By analyzing the effects of religious expression's omission from the Act's protection, this Note argues that enforcement under the Act may be impermissible under both Bunreacht na hEireann and international law. To rectify the Act's failure to defend religious expression, this Note proposes that the Act be amended to permit religious expression as a defense for blasphemy. It then applies the proposed defense to examples of speech that otherwise might run afoul under the Act.
- Subjects
IRELAND; BLASPHEMY; FREEDOM of religion; FREEDOM of expression; LAW enforcement; INTERNATIONAL law; IRISH law
- Publication
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 2012, Vol 44, Issue 3, p803
- ISSN
0008-7254
- Publication type
Article