Eric Heinze is Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. He received his JD from Harvard Law School and his PhD from the University of Leiden (Netherlands), in addition to undergraduate and post-graduate study in the Universities of Paris (Licence, Maîtrise) and Berlin. Heinze's books include The Logic of Constitutional Rights (2005); The Logic of Liberal Rights (2003); The Logic of Equality (2003) and Sexual Orientation: A Human Right (1995) (Russian translation 2004), as well as an edited collection entitled Of Innocence and Autonomy: Children, Sex and Human Rights (2000). Heinze has contributed chapters to such anthologies as Religious Pluralism and Human Rights (Loenen & Goldschmidt, 2006); Minority and Group Rights Toward the New Millennium (Bowring & Fottrell, 1999); and Natural Law: A Jurisprudential Debate (Sabiha Khanum, ed., 2008); Extreme Speech and Democracy chapter 10, James Weinstein and Ivan Hare, eds., Oxford University Press, 2009; Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society ch. 6 (R Banakar, ed., Oxford, UK, Hart Publishing, 2009). Recent articles have appeared in the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, Harvard Human Rights Journal, Indiana International & Comparative Law Review, International Journal of Law in Context, Journal of Social & Legal Studies, Law & Critique, Law & Literature, Legal Studies, Michigan Journal of International Law, Modern Law Review, National Black Law Journal, Nordic Journal of International Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Ratio Juris, and other scholarly journals. Awards and Fellowships have included a Nuffield Foundation Grant, 1998; French Government (Chateaubriand) Fellowship, 1992-93; Harvard University Fellowship (Sheldon), 1992; Fulbright Fellowship, 1991-92; Andres Public Interest grant, 1990; C. Clyde Ferguson Human Rights Fellowship, 1989; Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1986-87. Heinze's prior professional experience includes work for the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva and the United Nations Administrative Tribunal. He is a member of the Bars of New York and Massachusetts.
Civil Rights
Cumulative Jurisprudence and Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation and Analogies to Disability, Age and Obesity, International Journal of Human Rights (2009)
Non-discrimination norms in human rights instruments generally enumerate specified categories for protection, such as race,...
Wild-West Cowboys versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems in Comparative Approaches to Extreme Speech, Extreme Speech and Democracy (2009)
All European states ban some form of hate speech. US law precludes such bans. In...
Public Awareness of Human Rights: Distortions in the Mass Media (with Rosa Freedman), ExpressO (2008)
This article examines distortions of human rights reporting in the mass media. We examine human...
Comparative Law
Wild-West Cowboys versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems in Comparative Approaches to Extreme Speech, Extreme Speech and Democracy (2009)
All European states ban some form of hate speech. US law precludes such bans. In...
Constitutional Law
Cumulative Jurisprudence and Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation and Analogies to Disability, Age and Obesity, International Journal of Human Rights (2009)
Non-discrimination norms in human rights instruments generally enumerate specified categories for protection, such as race,...
Book Review, ExpressO (2008)
Human Rights Law
Cumulative Jurisprudence and Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation and Analogies to Disability, Age and Obesity, International Journal of Human Rights (2009)
Non-discrimination norms in human rights instruments generally enumerate specified categories for protection, such as race,...
Wild-West Cowboys versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems in Comparative Approaches to Extreme Speech, Extreme Speech and Democracy (2009)
All European states ban some form of hate speech. US law precludes such bans. In...
Public Awareness of Human Rights: Distortions in the Mass Media (with Rosa Freedman), ExpressO (2008)
This article examines distortions of human rights reporting in the mass media. We examine human...
International Law
Cumulative Jurisprudence and Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation and Analogies to Disability, Age and Obesity, International Journal of Human Rights (2009)
Non-discrimination norms in human rights instruments generally enumerate specified categories for protection, such as race,...
Wild-West Cowboys versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems in Comparative Approaches to Extreme Speech, Extreme Speech and Democracy (2009)
All European states ban some form of hate speech. US law precludes such bans. In...
Public Awareness of Human Rights: Distortions in the Mass Media (with Rosa Freedman), ExpressO (2008)
This article examines distortions of human rights reporting in the mass media. We examine human...
Jurisprudence
Book Review, ExpressO (2008)
Epinomia: Plato and the First Legal Theory, Ratio Juris (2007)
The Status of Classical Natural Law: Plato and the Parochialism of Modern Theory, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2007)
The concept of modernity has long been central to legal theory. It is an intrinsically...
Law and Society
Wild-West Cowboys versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems in Comparative Approaches to Extreme Speech, Extreme Speech and Democracy (2009)
All European states ban some form of hate speech. US law precludes such bans. In...
Legal History
Book Review, ExpressO (2008)
Epinomia: Plato and the First Legal Theory, Ratio Juris (2007)
The Status of Classical Natural Law: Plato and the Parochialism of Modern Theory, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2007)
The concept of modernity has long been central to legal theory. It is an intrinsically...
Politics
Cumulative Jurisprudence and Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation and Analogies to Disability, Age and Obesity, International Journal of Human Rights (2009)
Non-discrimination norms in human rights instruments generally enumerate specified categories for protection, such as race,...
Wild-West Cowboys versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems in Comparative Approaches to Extreme Speech, Extreme Speech and Democracy (2009)
All European states ban some form of hate speech. US law precludes such bans. In...
Public Awareness of Human Rights: Distortions in the Mass Media (with Rosa Freedman), ExpressO (2008)
This article examines distortions of human rights reporting in the mass media. We examine human...
Epinomia: Plato and the First Legal Theory, Ratio Juris (2007)
Public Law and Legal Theory
Cumulative Jurisprudence and Hate Speech: Sexual Orientation and Analogies to Disability, Age and Obesity, International Journal of Human Rights (2009)
Non-discrimination norms in human rights instruments generally enumerate specified categories for protection, such as race,...
Wild-West Cowboys versus Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Some Problems in Comparative Approaches to Extreme Speech, Extreme Speech and Democracy (2009)
All European states ban some form of hate speech. US law precludes such bans. In...
Public Awareness of Human Rights: Distortions in the Mass Media (with Rosa Freedman), ExpressO (2008)
This article examines distortions of human rights reporting in the mass media. We examine human...
Religion
Book Review, ExpressO (2008)
Epinomia: Plato and the First Legal Theory, Ratio Juris (2007)
The Status of Classical Natural Law: Plato and the Parochialism of Modern Theory, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2007)
The concept of modernity has long been central to legal theory. It is an intrinsically...