Dr Eddie Clark

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Why ‘inciting violence’ should not be the only threshold for defining hate speech in New Zealand

22nd July 2021

Dr Eddie Clark, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington

OPINION: Defining laws on hate speech is notoriously difficult; but as New Zealand considers new legislation to protect groups against the impact of hate speech, Dr Eddie Clark, Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, believes that the current insistence on proving a link to inciting violence as a precondition for defining hate speech regulation is wrong, and contradicts other existing forms of speech regulation in New Zealand law.

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Dr Eddie Clark joined the Law Faculty of Victoria University of Wellington in February 2015. A VUW alumnus, he graduated in 2005 with a BA/LLB(Hons). After graduation, he worked for a number of years at a leading commercial firm, specialising in regulatory and administrative law, before completing his LLM and SJD at the University of Toronto. While in Toronto, he was on the adjunct faculty of both the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School, and worked as a researcher at the Law Commission of Ontario. His current research work is centred on his dissertation, which concerns the role of administrative law in opening up the administrative state to public participation.