Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2-8-2012
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; Social Insurance Research Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; Law & Society: Private Law eJournals; Law & Society: Public Law eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Political Science Network
Abstract
One of the first articles to discuss the problem of hate speech Words That Wound discusses the harms of racist speech before proposing a new tort enabling its victims to recover damages from the utterer I later expanded the article into a book with Jean Stefancic Entitled Understanding Words That Wound the book covers a range of recent problems including hate speech on the Internet campus hate speech codes and child porn
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
Words that Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling,
(2012).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/213