Professor Richard Moon
GCDC Visiting Academic (Jan–Jun 2025)
Bio:
Richard Moon is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Windsor in Canada. He is the author of The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression (U of T Press, 2024), Putting Faith in Hate: When Religion is the Source or Target of Hate Speech (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018), Freedom of Conscience and Religion (Irwin Law, 2014) (2nd edition, 2024), and The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression (U of T Press, 2000), editor of Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada (UBC Press, 2008), co-editor of Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2016), The Surprising Constitution (UBC Press, 2024) and Indigenous Spirituality and Religious Freedom (U of T Press, 2025). He is also co-editor of a forthcoming open access Canadian constitutional law casebook.
Representative publications:
“Freedom of Religion in Canada – The Principled and the Pragmatic”, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 512 (2023)
“Limits on Rights: The Marginal Role of Proportionality Analysis”, 50 Israel Law Review 1 (2017)
“The Social Character of Freedom of Expression”, 2(1) Amsterdam Law Forum 43-47 (2009)