In the wake of the latest outrage of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Ronald P. Sokol has an interesting article in the International Herald Tribune on whether hateful speech should be punished or not.
The author, whose writings include "Freedom of Expression in France: The Mitterrand-Dr.Gubler Affair" and who practices law in Aix-en-Provence, says that
it may be worth recalling two American cases involving speech just as egregious as that which shocked the French justice minister …The opinions of judges Felix Frankfurter and Louis Brandeis are hard to ignore…
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