Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Legal Education

Volume

63

Publication Date

2014

Keywords

Mariana Valverde, Victoria Saker Woeste, diversity, hate speech

Abstract

Within the last year two excellent books, Mariana Valverde’s Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance In an Age of Diversity and Victoria Saker Woeste’s Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech, address how social anxieties about “diversity” surface in the development and enforcement of the law. While the two books focus on different eras and countries, they similarly illustrate the tensions in legal contexts that can result from the growth in diversity

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